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What was the Antikythera mechanism?
The world’s first computer long predates the monster machine of 1945. Like, by several thousand years. If you couldn’t tell by the name alone, the Antikythera Mechanism was a device created by the ...
More than 2,000 years ago, Greek artisans built a compact machine of interlocking gears that could track the heavens with a precision that still unsettles modern engineers. The corroded fragments of ...
Researchers think they've solved the 2,200-year-old mystery of the Antikythera mechanism. The ancient device, found in a shipwreck, likely followed a Greek lunar calendar. They used statistical ...
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