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Mechanical Turk: The True Story of the Chess Playing Machine That Fooled the World
Tom Standage
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This title tells the true story of the Turk, the infamous 18th-century automation. The story links an unlikely cast of historical characters, from Napoleon, Beethoven and Poe to the pioneers of the computer age, and provides an accessible way of examining the complex relationship between magic, man, mind and machine, from the Enlightenment to the computer age.

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Tom Standage

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The Mechanical Turk: The Magic and Mechanism of the Notorious Chess-Playing Machine
Tom Standage

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THE PRESENT STATE OF TURKEY, Or a Description of the Political, Civil, and Religious Constitution, Government, and Laws, of the Ottoman Empire; the Finances, Military and Naval Establishment; The State of Learning, and of the Liberal and Mechanical Arts: the Manners and Domestic Economy of the Turks and Other Subjects of the Grand Signor, etc.
Thomas. THORNTON

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