The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine by Tom Standage

The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine

Tom Standage

272 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction history technology adventurous informative fast-paced
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This is the true account of the 18th-century mechanical man, powered by clockwork, dressed in a Turkish costume, and capable of playing chess. Created by a Hungarian nobleman, the machine-man known as The Turk traveled Europe and America, made the...

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