Local Professor On The World's First Computer, 'A Universe In A Box'

KUOW | By Jeannie Yandel

Published January 8, 2015 at 2:40 PM AKST

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A reconstructed Antikythera Mechanism

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A piece of the original Antikythera Mechanism. Divers found the first pieces off the coast of the Greek island Antikythera in 1901.

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Jeannie Yandel talks with University of Puget Sound professor James Evans about the Antikythera Mechanism, which is believed to be the world's first computer. Evans and a colleague recently found the mechanism may be as old as 205 BC, which is 50-100 years older than originally thought.

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