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I found a Norwegian story about
the Antikythera ship wreck and the first known analog computer,
here is what I found at Wikipedia;
"Antikythera
(Αντικύθηρα) is
a Greek
island
community
with a land area of 20.43 square kilometers, lying 38 kilometers
south-east of Kythira.
It is the most distant part of the Piraeus
Prefecture from its heart in the Athens
metropolitan
area. It is lozenge-shaped, 10.5km NNW to SSE by 3.4km ENE to
WSW. It is notable for being the location of the discovery of the Antikythera
mechanism and for the historical Antikythera
wreck.
In October 1900,
a team of sponge divers led by Captain Dimitrios Kondos had
decided to wait out a severe storm hampering their sail back from Africa
on the island of Antikythera, and they began diving for sponges
off the island's coastline. Although in years past divers worked
naked, by 1900 divers usually wore standard
diving dresses — canvas
suits and copper
helmets — which allowed them to dive deeper and to stay
submerged longer.
The first to lay eyes on the
shipwreck 60 metres down was Elias Stadiatos, who quickly signaled
to be pulled to the surface.
He described the scene as a heap of rotting corpses and horses
lying on the sea bed. Thinking the diver had gone mad from too
much carbon
dioxide in his helmet, Kondos himself dove into the water,
soon returning with a bronze
arm of a statue.
Until they could safely leave the island, the divers dislodged as
many small artifacts as they could carry.
Together with the Greek
Education Ministry and Hellenic
Navy, the sponge divers salvaged numerous artifacts from the
waters. By the end of 1902,
divers had recovered statues of a philosopher's head, a young boy,
a discus
thrower, the bronze Antikythera
Ephebe of ca. 340 BC (now in the National
Archaeological Museum of Athens), a Hercules,
a marble
bull and a bronze lyre.
Many other small and common artifacts were also found. On May
17, 1902,
however, archaeologist
Valerios
Stais made the most celebrated find. When diving to search the
area of the wreck, he noticed that one of the pieces of rock near
him had a gear wheel embedded in it. It would soon be identified
as the Antikythera
mechanism; originally thought to be one of the first forms of
a mechanised clock,
it is now considered to be the world’s oldest known analog
computer.
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19.nov 2007 06:00 Av: Eirik
Newth , Forfatter
"For
litt over hundre år siden var en båt med greske dykkere på tokt
utenfor den lille øya Andikithira (20.43
km2 stor, ligger 38 km. syd for Kythira.
Den er den fjerneste delen av Piraeus.)
Med ett kom en av dykkerne opp
av vannet med en forferdelig beskjed: på førti meters dyp hadde
han funnet et skip fullt
av døde damer!
Det viste seg raskt at dykkeren riktig nok
hadde oppdaget et skipsvrak, men at damene var statuer.
Oppdagelsen var ikke mindre oppsiktsvekkende av den grunn. For
skipsvraket var fra det gamle Hellas, og i tillegg til statuer
var det rikt lastet med vaser og krukker, tallerkener, bestikk
og gullsmykker.
Blant alle skattene
fantes også en liten trekasse på størrelse med en bærbar
datamaskin. Mye av det råtne treet gikk i oppløsning da det
kom opp i lufta, og avslørte en klump med sammenrustede
tannhjul og stenger. Ingen hadde noensinne sett noe liknende, og
esken fikk derfor bare tilnavnet "Andikithira-mekanismen".
Innmaten var i så dårlig stand at det gikk et halvt århundre
før en britisk forsker klarte å begripe hva den ble brukt til."
Vil du lese mer? Klikk
http://www.nysgjerrigper.no/Artikler/2005/april/1113408031.97
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