The First Analog Hardware: Discovered in a Roman shipwreck, this 2000-year-old Greek device is a complex system of over 30 bronze gears used to calculate astronomical positions and eclipses. It is the oldest tangible proof that humanity could offload complex cognitive calculations from the human brain to physical computing hardware.
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