Amazingly, the device incorporated the knowledge of ancient Greece, Babylon, and Egypt together in a single machine. There are dials and hands on both the front and back faces of the device.

Art & Tech This Mysterious Ancient Greek Device May Be the First Computer. Now Scientists Have Just Taken a Big Step Towards Making It Work. The Antikythera Mechanism has been recreated in a ...

Remember the ZEOS Pocket PC? Perhaps you knew it as the Tidalwave PS-1000. Either way, it was a small clamshell computing device that was first released all the way back in 1992, and perhaps most a… ...

The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient shoebox-sized device that is sometimes called the world's oldest computer for its ability to perform astronomical calculations. Discovered by sponge divers ...

Scientists are fascinated by a 2000-year-old device, called the Antikythera mechanism that is also known as "the first computer." BGR reports that the ancient astronomical calendar found in an ...

The Antikythera Mechanism is a unique Greek geared device, constructed around the end of the second century bc.It is known 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 that it calculated and displayed celestial information ...

X-ray imaging in the 1970s and 1990s revealed that the device must have replicated the motions of the heavens. Holding it in your hands, you could track the paths of the Sun, Moon and planets with ...

Thanks to high-tech scanning, 2,000-year-old inscriptions on the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient Greek "computer," can be read more clearly than ever before, revealing more information about the ...

The Antikythera mechanism was an ancient Greek analog computer used to track and predict celestial motion. Pieces of the device at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, Greece, are seen here.

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 ...

A hand-powered clock from 2,000 years ago revealed a big secret with new astronomy research. The Antikythera mechanism's calendar ring likely followed the lunar year.