A 2,000-Year-Old Analog Computer

Pulled from a Greek shipwreck, the Antikythera mechanism used dozens of interlocking bronze gears to predict eclipses and track the calendar.

Why we kept this

Nobody's fully agreed on what all the gears were for, and that argument is still going on among historians right now.

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