14-th episode of 40-th season "NOVA"

What "NOVA" 14-th episode about

An unpromising lump of metal found in a 2,000-year-old shipwreck turns out to be an extraordinary treasure: the world's first computer. NOVA follows the ingenious detective work that painstakingly discovered the truth about the ancient Greek device: it was an astonishingly sophisticated astronomical calculator and eclipse predictor, unrivaled until the era of modern science and believed to be from the workshop of Archimedes.

Episode number: 14

Episode name: "Ancient Computer"

Episode release date: 4 april 2013 at 01:00

Status: aired