Since its discovery over a century ago, the Antikythera Mechanism has had scholars scratching their heads over how the Greeks managed to build a mechanical computer a hundred years before the birth of Christ and thousands of years before anything similar. But now things have become even stranger as researchers claim that it's over a hundred years older than previously believed and may have been built by a famous hand... Continue Reading World's oldest computer may be older than previously thought
Section: Science
Tags: Analog, Antikythera, Brown University, Calculator, Computer, History, Mechanical
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