The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine
- Author: TOM STANDAGE - Tom - Standage
- ISBN 10: 0425190390
- ISBN 13: 9780425190395
- Release: 2003-08-05
- Format: Paperback (288 pages)
- List Price: $14.00
- Tags: Science, General,
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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 acquaintance of Benjamin Franklin, Catherine the Great, Napoleon Bonaparte, and Edgar Allan Poe.
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