IT lexicon Hardware Antikythera mechanism

Antikythera mechanism

Hardware På svenska → Updated: 2026-08-06
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Released
c. 100 BC
Type
Analogue computing mechanism
Found
1901, in a Roman wreck off Antikythera

A bronze clockwork from roughly 100 BC that computed the positions of the heavens — after which nobody on Earth built anything mechanically comparable for fourteen centuries.

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