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2,000 years ago, Greeks built a machine like the first computer
More than two millennia ago, Greek craftsmen built a bronze machine that could track the heavens with a precision that would ...
Researchers at UCL have solved a major piece of the puzzle that makes up the ancient Greek astronomical calculator known as the Antikythera Mechanism, a hand-powered mechanical device that was used to ...
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Pehr-Georg and Edvard Scheutz’s Difference Engine Explained — Everything You Need To Know
Charles Babbage is widely recognized for inventing the first mechanical computer, the Difference Engine, in 1821. However, he never managed to build any of his many designs. Pehr-Georg Scheutz, a ...
Long before electricity was a common household utility, humanity had been building machines to do many tasks that we’d now just strap a motor or set of batteries onto and think nothing of it.
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