Computers have endless applications, but even today’s largest and complex computers cannot do, what the world's first computer did i.e. it predicted future.
The ‘Antikythera Mechanism’ also called the world's first computer, dated about 2,000 years old, was used for much greater purposes by the ancient Greeks then to chart the movement of the sun, moon and planets, it was also a fortune telling device, researchers say.
As per Gizmodo, the Antikythera Mechanism, which was discovered off the Greek island of Antikythera in 1901, have remained one of the most important and amazing archaeological discoveries ever made. This clock-like assembly of bronze gears and displays was used to predict lunar and solar eclipses, along with the positions of the sun, moon, and planets.
As per reports, the mechanism unlike the modern computers wasn’t programmable in the modern sense, but considered the world’s first analog computer.
The i4u states that the mysterious device was a kind of ‘philosopher’s guide to the galaxy.’ “Now we have texts that you can actually read as ancient Greek, what we had before was like something on the radio with a lot of static,” said Alexander Jones, professor of the history of ancient science at New York University.
"It's a lot of detail for us because it comes from a period from which we know very little about Greek astronomy and essentially nothing about the technology, except what we gather from here. So these very small texts are a very big thing for us.”
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