Was there a computer some two thousand years ago? Were the people of that era quite advanced to boast of a computing machine? Approximately 100 years ago, mariners and researchers found a weird looking metallic object close to an ancient ship wreckage!
Some opine that it would be some kind of old clock and some added that -”a shoebox-size lump of bronze, which appeared to have a wooden exterior. It rather looked like a bronze dial. Researchers also noticed precisely cut triangular gear teeth of different sizes. The thing looked like some sort of mechanical clock. But this was impossible, because scientifically precise gearing wasn’t believed to have been widely used until the fourteenth century — fourteen hundred years after the ship went down.”
It somewhat looks like a next-generation CAT scan equipment. At last, researchers and underwater surveyors have come up with the revelation of “Antikythera Mechanism.”
The Greek coast has unraveled many of such mysteries that date back to ancient mythological times. This may prove a strong fact that Greeks were a lot knowledgeable and advanced than any other prevailing civilizations. This strange equipment also incorporates an array of gear trains that must have been used to drive its internal mechanism.
The New York Times has made public that this must be something close to “the world’s first computing machine”. They are still not sure what exactly this object portrays, but I guess such underwater expeditions will try to solve the mysteries behind evolutionary and intellectual growth of the humans for sure!
Via: Wired
