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Mechanical Turk: The True Story of the Chess-Playing Machine That Fooled the World - Tom Standage - Hardcover

Mechanical Turk: The True Story of the Chess-Playing Machine That Fooled the World - Tom Standage - Hardcover
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  • ISBN-13: 9780713995251
  • ISBN: 0713995254
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

AUTHOR

Standage, Tom

SUMMARY

The Turk was an 18th-century automaton, linking historical figures such as Napoleon and Beethoven to the pioneers of the computer age. Its story provides a way of examining the history of the relationship between man and machine.Standage, Tom is the author of 'Mechanical Turk: The True Story of the Chess-Playing Machine That Fooled the World - Tom Standage - Hardcover' with ISBN 9780713995251 and ISBN 0713995254.

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