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The world's first computer, I'm Jason Horton, I'm Rebecca Leib, and this is Ghost Town.

In 1901, Captain Demetrios Contos and his group of sponge divers investigated a shipwreck off the coast of the Greek island Antikythera in the Aegean Sea.

The mysterious shipwreck housed everything you might think of a mysterious shipwreck, statues, gold jewelry, coins, antiquities, and a highly mysterious mechanism called the Antikythera mechanism for lack of further information.

Today we're talking about the Antikythera mechanism, what it is, what it does, and how it quite possibly changed the world.

The small round Antikythera device was found inside a 13.4 inch by 7.1 inch by 3.5 inch wooden box, with a bunch of pieces, later separated into three main fragments that were each then divided into 82 separate fragments.

That goes to show how incredibly intricate this ancient object was, how insanely small its parts were.

Four of the fragments contained gears, while inscriptions are found on many of the other fragments.

The biggest gear of the strange machine was found to be approximately 5.1 inches in diameter and had 223 little tiny teeth.

On May 17, 1902 archaeologist Valerio Stys correctly identified the object as a machine containing gears.

Great. Valerio also estimated that this device spent approximately 2,000 years at the bottom of the sea.

He initially believed that this was an astronomical clock, but didn't make much progress from his guess as to its function.

It seemed so complicated and was hard to figure out, what with all these tiny, teeny parts being waterlogged for so many centuries.

50 years later, British science historian and Yale University professor Derrick J. Desala Price became interested in the Antikythera mechanism, devoting 8 years to figuring it the fuck out.

In 1971, Price and Greek nuclear physicist Charles Lampos Caracalos made X-ray and gamma ray images of the 82 fragments.

Price published a 70 page paper on their findings in 1974, theorizing that the device was way more than a clock.

Price made a claim that would further solidify the Antikythera mechanism in history.

He speculated that the device was actually the world's first computer, and that ancient Greeks had used it to unlock the mysteries of the universe.

Quote, nothing like this instrument is preserved elsewhere, Price wrote, nothing comparable to it is known from any ancient scientific text or literary illusion.

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