The ancient Antikythera Mechanism acts like an astronomical calculator, but its full purpose remains a mystery.
Silk-weaving loom dating to Western Han is world’s oldest known ‘computer hardware’ with corresponding ‘software’, China science body says.
The Antikythera mechanism has long been treated as a one-off marvel, a relic so far ahead of its time that some doubted ...
The computer, at its core, is an input-output device: it receives instructions, executes programmes, performs calculations automatically and produces results.By this fundamental definition, China's ...