In 1901, a Greek diver, who was a sponge hunter, found a huge black shadow on the bottom of the antikythera strait.
He swam over and was shocked.
It turned out to be the remains of an ancient shipwreck.
He was overjoyed by the unexpected discovery. He dived into the water again and examined it carefully.
The wreck was soon salvaged.
According to experts, this is an ancient ship that has been under water for 2000 years.
In other words, it sank at the beginning of the ce.
The ship's precious ancient art treasures were immediately saved and protected.
However, the miracle soon happened, and its value far exceeded that of all the statues.
It was found while the crew analyzed and cleaned the ship's cargo, and there was a puddle of rust in the useless junk.
After careful treatment, it was found to contain bronze plates, as well as a remnant of a mechanically machined copper circle with fine scales and strange characters.
The experts immediately realized that the circle was extraordinary. How could such a thing have been found on ancient ships?
After two serious disassembly and cleaning, the experts were even more amazed.
That many of the details in front of them show the prototype after cleaning, turns out to be a real machine, this machine is made up of activities pointer, complex dial, rotating gear and engraved metal version of the text of the replication found that it has more than 20 small gear, a scroll transmission device and a crown gear, on one side is a refers to the axis, refers to the axis of rotation, scale can be a variety of different speed rotates.
The hands are protected by a bronze movable plate with long inscriptions for people to read.
Charles price, an American academic, examined the device with an X-ray, thinking it was a computer that could calculate the motions of the sun, moon and other planets.
It was tested to date from 82 BC.
This must surprise the world.
You know, the computer was invented by PASCAL in 1642, and the computational accuracy of his machine was very poor.
Although it is generally acknowledged that the greeks were the most intelligent people in ancient times, the appearance of this ancient computer is still beyond comprehension.
What's more, the machine is made entirely of metal and USES a sophisticated gear rotating device.
It is well known that metal gears were used only during the Renaissance.
This involves the need to have the car, pliers, milling, planing and other mechanical tools necessary to make it, which did not exist at all in ancient Greece.
So the question has to be: who made this "antikythera machine"?
Some people say that if it was made by the ancient greeks, the understanding of ancient Greek science and technology would have to be completely rewritten.
But this rewriting could not be done because the computer was an isolated piece of evidence, and nothing about its manufacture was known.
There has never been any record of computer machinery in the literature of ancient Greece and all other ancient peoples.
If it was not made by the ancient greeks, it must have come from far more intelligent hands than the ancient greeks, with much higher levels of science, technology and technology.
So, who made it?