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Fine engineering on this order was ... has earned the Antikythera mechanism the title of the world's first computer.
Researchers previously thought the calendar ring on the Antikythera mechanism ... sometimes been called the world's oldest computer. One piece of the mechanism, known as the "calendar ring ...
This artifact, now known as the Antikythera Mechanism ... ancient Greek science and engineering. With its intricate gears and detailed inscriptions, this analog computer was capable of predicting ...
"Our work reveals the Antikythera Mechanism as a beautiful conception, translated by superb engineering into a ... they were able to create a computer model for a mechanism of overlapping gears ...
Known to many as the world’s first analogue computer, the Antikythera Mechanism is the most complex piece of engineering to have survived from the ancient world. The 2,000-year-old device was ...
Even though the two thousand year-old Antikythera Mechanism has been touted as the world’s first computer ... technology, engineering and mathematics (or STEM), the Antikythera Mechanism ...
Related: Antikythera mechanism, world's oldest computer, followed Greek lunar ... the Antikythera Mechanism represents the apex of ancient engineering expertise. And despite modern technology ...
The Antikythera Mechanism, once hailed as the world’s first computer, is once again at ... had a remarkable understanding of mechanical engineering. However, if the device was indeed prone ...
Computer of heavens and Earth The Antikythera Mechanism was not merely a bauble ... illuminates the relevance of Greek thought and engineering to our own times. Our computer-based society is ...
“We hope that our findings about the Antikythera mechanism ... making it the first known analog computer. Michael Wright, then curator of mechanical engineering at the Science Museum in London ...