Ancient Computer Wall Art

More than 2000 years the most sophisticated scientific instrument was resting in the bottom of Aegean Sea. A Roman ship with official loot from Rhodes of more than 100 statues and the mechanism has sunk near Antikythera Island. Found by sponge divers the artifact first was labeled a child's-toy. British historian Derek J.de Solla Price in 1951 cleaned the device and undertook systematic investigation. It took many years for scientists to demystify it with radiographies-rays, gamma rays and other analysis. It appears to be a clock-like machine consisting of 37 precise hand-cut bronze gears, wheels, dials and scales fitted in to a wooden box. The box has decayed. Thirty other gears are missing. The instrument was a mechanical analog...

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