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344 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781594201264
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: The Penguin Press
Publication date: 05 July 2007
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Vienna 1770—Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen unveils a strange and amazing invention, the Mechanical Turk, a sensational and unbeatable chess-playing automaton. But what the Habsburg court hails as the greatest innovation of the century is really nothi...
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344 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781594201264
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: The Penguin Press
Publication date: 05 July 2007
Description
Vienna 1770—Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen unveils a strange and amazing invention, the Mechanical Turk, a sensational and unbeatable chess-playing automaton. But what the Habsburg court hails as the greatest innovation of the century is really nothi...
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