Mechanical Turk

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Sources

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

Relations

built by:

• Wolfgang von Kempelen1770

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

performed for:

• Benjamin Franklin

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

• Maria Theresa of Austria1770

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

• Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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  Chess: From Chaturanga to AlphaZero2 items
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    The Turk plays at Schönbrunn1770
  • The Turk burns in Philadelphia5 Jul 1854