Mechanical Turk: The True Story of the Chess Playing Machine That Fooled the World
Tom Standage
288 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 014029919X
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Language: English
Publish: January 1, 2004
BiographyChessGamesHistoryHistory Of ScienceMagicMicrohistoryNonfictionScienceTechnology
This title tells the story of the Turk, the infamous 18th-century automation. The story links a cast of historical characters, from Napoleon, Beethoven and Poe to the pioneers of the computer age, and provides an accessible way of examining the relationship between magic, man, mind and machine.