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The 2,000-year-old Antikythera mechanism was an analog computer no one could recreate for centuries

In 1901, sponge divers exploring a shipwreck off the small Greek island of Antikythera pulled up a corroded lump of bronze ...
Morning Overview on MSN

The Antikythera mechanism is a 2,000-year-old Greek 'computer' scientists still can't fully explain

More than a century after sponge divers pulled a corroded lump of bronze from an ancient shipwreck, the object it contained ...
New Scientist

Was ancient Greek ‘computer’ an astronomical tool?

INSCRIPTIONS on a mysterious 2000-year-old clockwork device suggest that the artefact was inspired by earlier devices made by the great Greek mathematician Archimedes. The so-called “Antikythera ...
Geeky Gadgets

The Mysterious 2,000-Year-Old Analog Computer That Baffles Scientists

In the azure waters off the coast of Antikythera, Greece, a chance discovery in the early 20th century transformed our understanding of ancient technology. A sponge diver, exploring the remnants of a ...
Greek Reporter

Ancient Greek Inventions We Weren’t Meant to Find

Ancient Greek inventions included remarkable automata and the Antikythera Mechanism, but many of their engineers' innovations have been lost.
CRN

Ancient Greek Computer Set Dates For Olympics

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, ...
Greek Reporter

Ancient Greek Inventions Still Used Today

Many Ancient Greek inventions, created many centuries ago, still play an incredibly large role in our daily lives today.
PBS

Ancient Computer

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 ...