The ancient Antikythera Mechanism acts like an astronomical calculator, but its full purpose remains a mystery.
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What was the Antikythera mechanism?
The world’s first computer long predates the monster machine of 1945. Like, by several thousand years.
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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 ...
Ancient Egyptians and Etruscans pioneered orthodontics, using delicate gold wires and catgut to straighten teeth. It’s a tale that has appeared in dentistry textbooks for decades, portraying our ...
Silk-weaving loom dating to Western Han is world’s oldest known ‘computer hardware’ with corresponding ‘software’, China ...
Sophisticated silk-weaving loom dating back to the Western Han dynasty used physical pattern cards which acted like ancient ...
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2,000-year-old machine found in China tomb could be binary computer
The computer, at its core, is an input-output device: it receives instructions, executes programmes, performs calculations ...
The image of ancient people sporting gold and catgut braces is certainly appealing and dramatic, but it doesn’t match the ...
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