The Two-Thousand-Year-Old Computer
In 1901, a group of divers excavating an ancient Roman shipwreck near the island of Antikythera, off the southern coast of Greece, found a mysterious object - a lump of calcified stone that contained within it several gearwheels welded together after years under the sea. The 2,000-year-old object, no bigger than a modern laptop, is now regarded as the world's oldest computer, devised to predict solar eclipses and, according to recent findings, calculate the timing of the ancient Olympics. Following the efforts of an international team of scientists, the mysteries of the Antikythera Mechanism are uncovered, revealing surprising and awe-inspiring details of the object that continues to mystify.
Quoteis now regarded as the world's oldest computer,
We can go back many many more centuries and discover even more evidence
regarding ancient
Mechanical and
Optical based "
Computers".
Its just a matter of
recognizing these "
Technologies" or
understand what we are looking at.
Much can be found in ancient ruins, in the form of "
Mosaic Art" esp. in Byzantium and Chinese.
It is a testament to the fact that Archimedes ranks as one of the greatest Inventors humanity has ever produced.
Archimedes..Da-Vinci..Tesla.
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