Most complicated thingy

[bisonbison]

Guys, you need to lighten up. I need someone to tell me about the most complicated device ever made by man that fits these criteria:

No electricity, no combustion, no steam. No strange power source I haven't accounted for.

Purely mechanical power (horse, river, wind power, man pushing button to activate spring...) is fine.

The typewriter?
The windmill?
The something else entirely?



The winner? Everything I own.

[Borodog]

I'm going to go with the self-winding pocket watch. I have a beautiful one my wife gave me with the guts all exposed behind the crystal, and that thing is astounding.

[MrMon]

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I'm going to go with the self-winding pocket watch. I have a beautiful one my wife gave me with the guts all exposed behind the crystal, and that thing is astounding.

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It's got to be something like this. I can't find a picture of the internals, but the H4 watch that solved the longitude problem was something to behold.

Precision mechanical clocks/watches are amazing technology that you can hold in your hand and are only as complex as they need to be, yet are very complex, and they do work. Babbage's engine may be complex, but it didn't work, or at least it couldn't be built, so that's kind of a strike against it. Watches work.

[CORed]

Babbage engines have been built in recent years and they did work. Babbage was never able to muster the financial resources to build it, but the design was valid.

[John Cole]

Oops; posted in the wrong place. See above for the engine that was built.

[purnell]

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I'm going to go with the self-winding pocket watch. I have a beautiful one my wife gave me with the guts all exposed behind the crystal, and that thing is astounding.

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I can't come up with anything to top this.

[Borodog]

My second guess would have to be a clipper ship.

[Sharkey]

My guess is the piano.

[aeest400]

Babbage's analytical engine.

[DrunkHamster]

Principia Mathematica