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Was ancient Greece's Antikythera mechanism the world's first computer?

3 November - 39 mins
Podcast Series Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Mike Edmunds - Emeritus Professor of Astrophysics at Cardiff University & Founding member of the Antikythera Mechanism Research Project @cardiffPHYSX.

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