World’s first computer is 2000 years old?
June 8th, 2006 1:16 pm | by Catherine Lavallee-Welch
A bronze mechanism of wheels and dials dating from 80 B.C., the “Antikythera Mechanism”, is now thought to be
a prediction tool for planetary motion. The mechanism was discovered on the wreck of a cargo ship in Greece in 1900. Researchers also think that the mechanism shows a conception of the universe that is sun-centered.
As the first USF librarian at the Lakeland campus (now Polytechnic), I opened the USF Polytechnic Library in January 2007 and have developed its various services.
I've held positions as information broker, Internet consultant and academic librarian in Canada, the US and Europe.
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