Mechanical Turk: The True Story of the Chess Playing Machine That Fooled the World by Tom Standage, Tom Standage
Mechanical Turk: The True Story of the Chess Playing Machine That Fooled the World
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Tom Standage, Tom Standage
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Mechanical Turk: The True Story of the Chess Playing Machine That Fooled the World

Tom Standage, Tom Standage

288 pages • first pub 2002 (view editions)

nonfiction history technology adventurous informative fast-paced
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This title tells the story of the Turk, the infamous 18th-century automation. The story links a cast of historical characters, from Napoleon, Beethoven and Poe to the pioneers of the computer age, and provides an accessible way of examining the re...

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