More than 2,000 years ago, Greek artisans built a compact machine of interlocking gears that could track the heavens with a precision that still unsettles modern engineers. The corroded fragments of ...

The Antikythera mechanism, a first-century BC Greek device recovered from a shipwreck, is an analog computer designed to track and predict celestial movements, including the phases and orbit of the ...

The world watched in astonishment last week as NASA delivered its one-ton Curiosity rover to the surface of Mars with astonishing precision, hitting a target area just 12 x 4 miles wide after eight ...

The first mechanical computer is an Analytical Engine, which was designed by Charles Babbage, the Father of the Computer.

An ancient Greek computer could predict eclipses with impressive accuracy. National Corporate funding for NOVA is provided by Viking Cruises. Major funding for NOVA is provided by the NOVA Science ...

In 1900 a storm blew a boatload of sponge divers off course and forced them to take shelter by the tiny Mediterranean island of Antikythera Diving the next day they discovered a 2000 yearold Greek ...