Heron of Alexandria’s Mechanical Television

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Around 2000 years ago the great inventor Heron of Alexandria essentially invented computer programming. One invention automatically rolled out onto a theater stage, opened up, and showed a play with scene changes and sound effects.

To learn about more of Heron’s inventions, here is a full documentary about them.

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