Ancient Device Gives Up Its Secrets

Dustin Lushing — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:40:01 CDT

The world's oldest calculating machine was used as a calendar that tracked eclipses and marked Olympic Games, the Telegraph reports. Scientists say the ancient Greek "Antikythera Mechanism," a 2,100-year-old bronze gadget discovered in 1900, marked the 4-year cycle of Games that climaxed with the Olympics—"which says more about...

First Computer May Be 2100 Years Old

NewsDude — Sun, 20 May 2007 21:02:23 CDT

An unknown scientist in the first century B.C. may have invented the world’s first computer. Discovered by Greek divers in 1900 on the bottom of the Aegean Sea near the island of Antikythera, the so called Antikythera Mechanism lay in the National Museum in Athens mistaken for an astrolabe...

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Ancient Device Gives Up Its Secrets

First Computer May Be 2100 Years Old