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Apple Engineer Re-Creates 2,000 Year Old Greek Computer … With Legos

Posted by Pelliciari on December 10, 2010

Andrew Carol, a software engineer for Apple, has re-created a 2,000 year old Greek computer, the Antikythera Mechanism, using Legos. Ancient Greeks created this device around 100 B.C. to predict astronomical events, such as eclipses.