Blog Posts on greek ancient technology

Lego analog computer: rebuilding the Antikythera Mechanism by RANDOM NOTHINGNESS on Mar 3, 2011In 1901 a curious mechanism was recovered from the Antikythera Shipwreck.   An analog computer built to calculate astronomical positions, its time of construction is now estimated to be between 150 and 100 BCE.   2000 years later, the mechanism wa...