The Astounding Pop Mech Show: The Never-Ending Mysteries of the World’s First Computer

The ancient Antikythera Mechanism acts like an astronomical calculator, but its full purpose remains a mystery.
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That “impossible” Greek computer is real, and its secrets keep spilling out

The Antikythera mechanism has long been treated as a one-off marvel, a relic so far ahead of its time that some doubted ...
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2,000 Years Before Our Time, the Greeks Created the World’s First Computer (So Advanced That it Continues to Baffle Scientists)

In the summer of 1900, a group of sponge divers off the coast of Antikythera, a Greek island, stumbled upon a shipwreck that would go on to reveal one of the most extraordinary technological ...
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Ancient computer's gears may not have been able to turn

The Antikythera mechanism, a mysterious ancient Greek device that is often called the world’s first computer, may not have functioned at all, according to a simulation of its workings. But researchers ...