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343 pages • first pub 2007 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780670916368
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Fig Tree
Edition Pub Date: 25 December 2007
Description
Vienna 1770 - Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen unveils a strange and amazing invention, the Mechanical Turk, a sensational and unbeatable chess-playing automaton. But what the Habsburg court hails as the greatest innovation of the century is really not...
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343 pages • first pub 2007 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780670916368
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Fig Tree
Edition Pub Date: 25 December 2007
Description
Vienna 1770 - Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen unveils a strange and amazing invention, the Mechanical Turk, a sensational and unbeatable chess-playing automaton. But what the Habsburg court hails as the greatest innovation of the century is really not...
Community Reviews
Content Warnings