The Antikythera Mechanism, humanity’s first computer, which was found by sponge divers in 1901, was designed by the great mathematician Archimedes, says a team of British and Greek researchers, according to greekreporter.com.
A team of researchers at University College London (UCL) believes that it was none other than the great ancient Greek mathematician who designed the incredibly intricate mechanism, which consists of a network of gears that computed and showed the movement of the stars through the heavens.
Even though there is no conclusive evidence that he was the mind behind humanity’s first computer, mathematician and filmmaker Tony Freeth of the UCL Research Team, which includes Greek archaeometallurgist Myrto Georgakopoulou and Aris Dakanalis, believe that it was Archimedes himself who was behind the staggeringly ingenious machine.
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