The ancient 'computer' that simply shouldn't exist - BBC REEL

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一百多年前,海底潜水员在安提基特拉小岛附近的海底发现了一个非凡的机器。它震惊了整个国际考古界。它是星盘吗?它是一个太阳分仪还是一个天文钟?或者是其他东西?在过去半个世纪的研究已经开始揭示它的秘密。该机器的历史可以追溯到公元前2世纪末,是目前发现的古代世界最先进的机械计算机。

When we first looked at the results, it was astonishing.

We've had to rethink the history of technology completely as a result of this single object.

It's such a clever, extraordinarily sophisticated machine, completely.

Completely shocking for ancient Greece.

120 years ago, sponge divers discovered a shipwreck off the tiny island of Antikythera in Greece, and what they found changed our understanding of human history forever.

Among the treasure trove were marble statues, elegant vases, glistening jewelry and ancient coins and what looked to be a hunk of corroded metal that no one knew quite what to do with.

It was not recognised at all as being anything interesting when it was discovered, it was just a corroded lump about the size of a large dictionary.

But when in 1902, it was discovered that there were gear wheels inside it, everyone suddenly got rather excited.

This is the first shock because anything from ancient Greece simply shouldn't have gear wheels.

These were precision gears with teeth about a millimetre long.

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