Genre
Historical
Numéro ISBN
9780974311029
Dessin
Irwin
Éditeur
FIERY STUDIOS INC
Langue
EN
Brand Code
XX
Artiste de couverture
Irwin, Jane
Délai de livraison
Backorder
Couverture
TPB
Poids
448
Diamond Code
MAY241599
Date limité de precommande
1899-12-31
Date de parution
12-06-2024
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Description
In 1769, the court of Empress Maria Theresa witnessed one of that era's most amazing feats of engineering: The Turk, a machine that could play chess. Artfully constructed by a Hungarian nobleman named Wolfgang von Kempelen, the chess-machine played a unique game against each opponent, far surpassing the abilities of all its fellow automata. Napoleon, Charles Babbage, and Benjamin Franklin were among its challengers, and Edgar Allen Poe wrote an essay attempting to explain how it worked.
