It’s no surprise then that he’s interested in the Antikythera Mechanism—a small ... in 1900 that is believed to be the first analog computer and one of the oldest known geared systems ...

Turns out, these are no ordinary fragments, but remarkable time relics disintegrated from the body of a crumbling artifact ...

The Antikythera Mechanism is a mysterious ancient device used to calculate lunar cycles, planet motions, and more. Over 2,000-years-old, it was far more advanced than any other technology of its time.

Mexican scientists and teachers from the University of Sonora in northwestern Mexico have successfully recreated the Antikythera mechanism, the oldest mechanical computer in humanity. The replica ...

From the time it was fished out from the colossal depths of the seas near Antikythera island in Greece ... the “world’s first computer” as it was referred to, embraced surprises galore ...

A Greek shipwreck holds the remains of an intricate bronze machine that turns out to be the world's first computer ... the tiny Mediterranean island of Antikythera. Diving the next day, they ...

An Ancient Greek Computer 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 ...

An ancient mechanical device found on a 2000-year-old shipwreck has become known as the world's first computer. The machine is centuries more advanced than historians thought possible, but its ...

such as those used in the construction of the Antikythera Mechanism, which [Chris] has been rebuilding for the past years, using only period-correct tools. He’s learned a lot about the mechanism ...

The abacus, a simple counting aid, may have been invented in Babylonia (now Iraq) in the fourth century B.C. The Antikythera mechanism ... Engine - a mechanical computer that can solve any ...

When winter begins in Antikythera, its population shrinks to almost nothing. Antikythera is a rural, isolated island in Greece. Antikythera, like many rural parts of the country, has suffered ...