num_pages: 288
description: Describes the eighteenth-century invention by Wolfgang von Kempeden of the Turk, a mechanical man fashioned of wood, powered by clockwork, and capable of playing chess, examining the machine's remarkable career in light of the industrial revolution and the impact of the invention on the history of technology. Reprint.
language: English
title: The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine
titlecomplete: The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine
genres: History, Games, Technology, Microhistory, Biography, Science, History Of Science, Nonfiction, Magic, Chess
ratings_count: 670
publisher: Berkley Trade