The Chess Machine by Robert Löhr

The Chess Machine

Robert Löhr with Anthea Bell (Translator)

344 pages hardcover 2007

13 editions

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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 nothi...

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