The Two Thousand Year Old Computer
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History, Technology Documentary hosted by Dilly Barlow, published by BBC in 2012 - English narration
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The Two Thousand Year Old Computer In 1901, a group of divers excavating an ancient Roman shipwreck near the island of Antikythera, off the southern coast of Greece, found a mysterious object - a lump of calcified stone that contained within it several gearwheels welded together after years under the sea. The 2,000-year-old object, no bigger than a modern laptop, is now regarded as the world's oldest computer, devised to predict solar eclipses and, according to recent findings, calculate the timing of the ancient Olympics. Following the efforts of an international team of scientists, the mysteries of the Antikythera Mechanism are uncovered, revealing surprising and awe-inspiring details of the object that continues to mystify
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- Video Codec: XviD ISO MPEG-4
- Video Bitrate: 1643 kbps
- Video Resolution: 720 x 416
- Video Aspect Ratio: 1.731 (16:9)
- Frames Per Second: 25
- Audio Codec: 0x2000 (Dolby AC3)
- Audio Bitrate: 128 kb/s AC3 48000 Hz
- Audio Streams: 2
- Audio Languages: English
- RunTime Per Part: 59.Mins
- Number Of Parts: 1
- Part Size: 746 MB
- Source: PDTV
- Encoded by: Harry65
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BBC.The.Two.Thousand.Year.Old.Computer.PDTV.XviD.AC3.MVGroup.org.avi (746.29 Mb) Subtitles: [eng]
Categories: History | Technology | Dilly Barlow | BBC | 2012 | English | Name
Language > English
Name
Narrator > Dilly Barlow
Publisher > BBC
Subject > History
Subject > Technology
Year > 2012