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449 pages • first pub 2007 (editions) user-added
ISBN/UID: 9780141919553
Format: Digital
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Books
Publication date: 07 February 2008
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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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449 pages • first pub 2007 (editions) user-added
ISBN/UID: 9780141919553
Format: Digital
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Books
Publication date: 07 February 2008
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...