Researchers simulated the device's ancient gear system to find out whether the contraption actually worked. Apparently, it did not.

Over 120 years ago, sponge divers off the coast of the Greek island Antikythera unearthed one of the most enigmatic ...

While the first computers were mechanical and famously ran on vacuum ... In the 1930s, the Russian scientist Vladimir Lukyanov built an analog computer known as the "Water Integrator" or ...

How do you rapidly record the output from your three million dollar analog computer in the 1940s when ... keyboard that looked like an old-fashioned mechanical adding machine (it probably ...

The artifact is known today as the world’s oldest computer. Ever since divers recovered ... Not everyone agrees. Mechanical engineer Tony Freeth, who is an expert on the mysterious artifact ...

Introduction to microprocessor controlled electromechanical systems. Interfacing sensors and actuators to computers, electrical and mechanical prototyping, dissection of commercial product. Final term ...