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The Turk (1770-1854)

The Turk (1783. Public Domain)

 

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Alias: Mechanical Turk. Automaton Chess Player

 

GENERAL INFO

Description: The Turk was a high precision automaton machine designed by Wolfgang von Kempelen to play chess. It consists of a wooden box and a mannequin dressed in Arab clothes. He had great success and Kempelen was able to Europe and America tour showing his great invention. The Turk defeated famous chess players, including Napoleon Bonaparte and Benjamin Franklin. Later it was discovered that in reality a human chess master hid inside to operate the machine.
Sex: – Occupation: Chess machine.
Place of Birth / Death: Vienna, Austria / Baltimore, Maryland, United States Country Tags: Austria. United States.
Centuries: XVIII-XIX. Title: –
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Bibliography

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  • Stephen Patrick Rice (2004). Minding the Machine: Languages of Class in Early Industrial America. University of California Press. 
  • Tom Standage (2002). The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous 19th Century Chess-Playing Machine. Walker.