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An Apple engineer has recreated the Antikythera Mechanism, an ancient Greek computer built to predict astronomical events, entirely out of Lego. The gear-driven Antikythera Mechanism is thought to have been built around 150 to 100 BC. It was discovered in late 1900 amongst a shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera and was originally thought to be some form of clock, and although its true purpose has since been divined, research on the device is still ongoing. It is the only machine of its kind that has ever been discovered. And while experts from around the world study this “analog […]