Inspired by the thread 'futuristic computer' I thought I'd make a thread about the antikythera mechanism, the earliest computer known to man.
It was a computer (no it couldn't run Crysis, a computer in the most primitive sense of the word) that could predict solar eclipses. Pretty amazing.
Its been dated to as early as 205 AD.
There was a very cool documentary about it called the 2000 year old computer and here it is...
Reccomended viewing for you casual sciency types.
It was a computer (no it couldn't run Crysis, a computer in the most primitive sense of the word) that could predict solar eclipses. Pretty amazing.
Its been dated to as early as 205 AD.
There was a very cool documentary about it called the 2000 year old computer and here it is...
Reccomended viewing for you casual sciency types.