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The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine

by Tom Standage | category Nonfiction |
ISBN: 0802713912
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Biography & AutobiographyAssociated over time with a host of historical figures, including Benjamin Franklin, Catherine the Great, Napoleon Bonaparte, Charles Babbage, and Edgar Allan Poe, Kempelen’s creation unwittingly also helped to inspire the development of ...more


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