In 1901, Greek sponge divers sheltering from a storm off the island of Antikythera stumbled onto a Roman shipwreck and hauled up a corroded lump of bronze that turned out to be a 2,000-year-old geared computer capable of predicting eclipses and tracking the Olympic calendar, a device so sophisticated nothing comparable would appear again for another 1,400 years
In 1900, Greek sponge divers took shelter from a storm off Antikythera and surfaced with a corroded lump that turned out to be a hand-cranked bronze computer built around 100 BC — capable of predicting eclipses and tracking the Olympic calendar, with nothing comparable appearing …