The Turk
Subtitle: The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine
Publisher: Walker & Company
Published: April 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780802713919
Subjects: Mechanics - General; Science; Kempelen, Wolfgang von,; Chess - General; Games / Gamebooks / Crosswords; Robotics; Science/Mathematics; MÃ¨alzel, Johann Nepomuk,; Malzel, Johann Nepomuk,; History; Kempelen, Wolfgang von; Malzel, Johann Nepomuk; Technology / History; Automaton chess players; 1734-1804; 1772-1838; Mèalzel, Johann Nepomuk,
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.