What is the first example of physical computing? It might be the from two millennia ago. Here’s more from the UK Science Museum:
The mechanism, then a calcified lump, turned out to be an agglomeration of corroded bronze gearwheels, dials and inscriptions that has puzzled, intrigued and amazed scientists ever since…. Today the Antikythera mechanism is considered one of the wonders of the ancient world and has challenged all preconceptions about the technological capabilities of the ancient Greeks.
‘It has been clear since it was brought up from the sea that it is unique – there is nothing else like it in the historical record, and it would rewrite the history of technology,’ said Jo Marchant, author of Decoding the Heavens: Solving the Mystery of the World’s First Computer.‘ But it has taken more than a century to figure out exactly what it did and how.’
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