Recreating a 2,000-Year-Old Computer

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This video shows the reconstruction of an ancient mechanical computer that's 2,000 years old. Found in a ship wreck more than a century ago, it was studied for decades by Michael Wright, a museum curator from London. Wright determined that this machine was used in predicting the motions of heavenly bodies.

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