Antikythera Mechanism T-Shirt | The Ancient Computer's Bronze Gears

In 1901 divers salvaging an ancient shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera brought up a lump of corroded bronze. Decades of study and modern X-ray scans revealed a geared machine built around the 2nd or 1st century BC: at least thirty interlocking bronze gears that modeled the movements of the sun and moon, predicted eclipses and tracked the four-year cycle of the great Greek athletic games. It is often called the world's first analog computer, and nothing as complex is known again for more than a thousand years.

This design shows the mechanism grown to the size of a cathedral: huge green-crusted bronze gears hanging over a long aisle of modern server racks, with bundles of blue and gold cable pouring out of the ancient wheels and into the machines below. The data center is that ancient calculator's descendant.

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• Heavyweight: Comfort Colors 1717, 6.1 oz (206 g/m²) ring-spun cotton, garment-dyed for a soft, lived-in feel. Relaxed unisex fit; size down for a closer fit.
• Classic: Gildan 5000, 5.3 oz (180 g/m²) 100% cotton. Regular unisex fit. The same print, for less.

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Care: wash cold inside out, tumble dry low or hang dry, do not iron the print.