Antikythera: A 2,000-year-old Greek computer

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Antikythera: A 2,000-year-old Greek computer

Postby crustyasp46 » Thu Jan 23, 2014 11:04 pm

Antikythera: A 2,000-year-old Greek computer comes back to life

Watch a working model of the ancient clockwork device that some call the world's first computer. The Antikythera mechanism, a mysterious clockwork object made up of numerous meshed cogs that was discovered more than a century ago among the cargo of a Greek shipwreck.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrfMFhrgOFc&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

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