Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Could The Ancient Romans Have Built A Digital Computer? | Gizmodo Australia

Could The Ancient Romans Have Built A Digital Computer? | Gizmodo Australia: "The Romans wereundoubtedlymaster engineers. They were experts at civil engineering, building roads, improving sanitation, inventing Roman concrete and constructing aqueducts that adhere to tolerances impressive even by today’s standards. Perhaps the best evidence of their aptitude is the fact that many of those structures still stand today, almost 2000 years later. They even began dabbling in technology vastly ahead of their time. Hero of Alexandria drew up plans for arudimentarysteam engine in hisSpiritalia seu Pneumatica.He called it the aeolipile."

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