The Turk : The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine
Автор:
Tom Standage, 288 стр., ISBN:
0425190390
Book DescriptionThis 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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