Lego Antikythera Mechanism

[Apoptosis]

Lego Antikythera Mechanism

The Antikythera Mechanism: http://bit.ly/fm4oFK 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. 

Sponsored by Digital Science: http://www.digital-science.com/ a new division of Macmillan Publishers that provides technology solutions for researchers. Available under a CC-BY-3.0-Unported license.

More on the making of this device can be found on this blog where I first heard about this.

[DJ Tucker]

this is absolutly superb. a piece of art as well as an sloar eclipse future telling device

[Sporg]

Very very cool, thanks for posting that!

[Major_A]

What really sucks is assuming the Library at Alexandria didn't burn down we might be a lot further along with our technology. No one really knows what information was lost.