Tuesday, 3 June 2014

Antikythera Mechanism

Just watched BBC Fours "The Two Thousand Year Old Computer" about a dive that uncovered some fascinating treasure and what is dubbed the first ever computer created by the Corinthians possibly by Archimedes, the ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes

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