The Ancient Greeks Built a Computer and Then Nobody Built Another for a Thousand Years
In 1901, sponge divers working off the Greek island of Antikythera found a shipwreck. Among the statues and pottery was a corroded lump of bronze that nobody could identify. It took a century to work out what it was: an analog computer, built around 150 to 100 BCE. Modern X-ray CT imaging revealed the inside. […]