Greek artisans built a bronze device around 80 B.C. that could track Olympiad cycles, predict eclipses, and model planetary positions through interlocking gears, all without electricity, transistors, ...
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The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient mechanical analog computer (as opposed to digital computer) designed to calculate astronomical positions. It was discovered in the Antikythera wreck off the ...
The delicate workings at the heart of a 2,000-year-old analogue computer have been revealed by scientists. The Antikythera Mechanism, discovered more than 100 years ago in a Roman shipwreck, was used ...
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