Lego used to re-create the Antikythera Mechanism – history’s oldest known computer

When you think you’ve seen it all, someone else clever comes up with another. This Lego masterpiece was created by Apple software engineer Andrew Carol who managed to use 1,500 LEGO Technic parts to recreate the Antikythera.

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.












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