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

The Mechanical Turk: The True Story of the Chess-Playing Machine That Fooled the World

Tom Standage

273 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction history technology adventurous informative fast-paced
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On an autumn day in 1769, a Hungarian nobleman, Wolfgang von Kempelen, was summoned to witness a conjuring show at the imperial court of Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria-Hungary. So unimpressed was Kempelen by the performance that he impetuously ...

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