Clockwork Game: The Illustrious Career of a Chessplaying Automaton by Jane Irwin

Clockwork Game: The Illustrious Career of a Chessplaying Automaton

Jane Irwin

216 pages paperback 2013

2 editions

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In 1769, the court of Empress Maria Theresia witnessed one of that era's most amazing feats of engineering: a machine that could play chess. Artfully constructed by a Hungarian nobleman named Wolfgang von Kempelen, the chess-machine played a uniq...

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