The Turk
Subtitle: The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Published: August 5, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780425190395
First sentence: On an autumn day in 1769, Wolfgang von Kempelen, a thirty-five-year-old Hungarian civil servant, was summoned to the imperial court in Vienna by Maria Theresa, empress of Austria-Hungary, to witness the performance of a visiting French conjuror.