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Ancient Greeks built a 'first computer' that still stumps us
More than 2,000 years ago, Greek artisans built a compact machine of interlocking gears that could track the heavens with a ...
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2,000 years ago, Greeks built a machine like the first computer
More than two millennia ago, Greek craftsmen built a bronze machine that could track the heavens with a precision that would ...
Suppose you could travel back in time to the third century BCE, and visit Alexandria, the capital city of the Greek kingdom of Egypt. Arguably it was the most enlightened, wealthy, and powerful of all ...
Methods used in astronomy have helped unravel mysteries of the ancient Greek Antikythera mechanism – an ancient astronomical calculator made at the end of the 2nd century BC. Researchers from the ...
The calculator, dubbed the Antikythera Mechanism, was discovered in 1901 at the site of a shipwreck off a Greek Island with the same name. The breakthrough in determining the mechanism's true purpose, ...
Scientists are one step closer to unlocking the secrets of the 2,000-year-old Antikythera Mechanism, considered the world’s first computer, thanks to a new computer-generated reconstruction of the ...
In its November 2023 issue, the Website Grunge assumed that certain science questions “won’t be answered in the next 50 years.” One of those questions was about the Antikythera Mechanism. The writer, ...
Welcome, visitors from StumbleUpon! Like what you see here? Check out PCWorld’s GeekTech blog for more hacks and DIY tech, or follow us on Facebook or Twitter. 2000 years ago the Greeks built a device ...
A Greek shipwreck holds the remains of an intricate bronze machine that turns out to be the world's first computer. (This program is no longer available for streaming.) In 1900, a storm blew a ...
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