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World's Oldest Computer

In the following video, Curator Michael Wright presents his renovation of the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient Greek clockwork machine that was used more than 2000 years ago to compute time as well as the movement of celestial bodies. The device was revealed in a shipwreck back in 1901 near the island of Antikythera and took more than a century to decipher.

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