Lego Antikythera Mechanism
An evening pause: From the youtube webpage:
The Antikythera Mechanism is the oldest known scientific computer, built in Greece at around 100 BCE. Lost for 2000 years, it was recovered from a shipwreck in 1901. But not until a century later was its purpose understood: an astronomical clock that determines the positions of celestial bodies with extraordinary precision. In 2010, we built a fully-functional replica out of Lego.
Hat tip Shaun Karry.
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Shaun-
Nice find.
Not really a Lego-person myself, but this is very cool! [who here had an Erector-Set?]
“The Antikythera Mechanism”
Dr Tony Freeth & Team
Stanford 2016
https://youtu.be/xWVA6TeUKYU
1:48:50
-nice historical/tech oriented presentation-
I think there is an old John Batchelor episode on the box found by the divers.
NASA needs to hire Lego engineers.
Their products are amazing. And seem to work.