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An Ancient Greek Computer

giant.net.au — In 1901 divers working off the isle of Antikythera found the remains of a clocklike mechanism 2,000 years old. The mechanism now appears to have been a device for calculating the motions of stars and planets

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  • brettbum, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Thanks for the story, it is an update on an old story, but very interesting from a history of tech perspective.

    After I read this story I did a little additional research, and wrote an article myself. Includes a diagram of the device from a Scientific American Journal from June 1959.

    http://mavenmapper.blogspot.com/2006/06/antikythera-mechanism-ancient-greek.html

    Track back through some of the links in the article and you'll find pictures of the actual device too.
  • jayinvt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0And the story has been around for 105 yrs.

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