Book ID: CBB000430274

The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine (2002)

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Standage, Tom (Author)


Walker
Publication date: 2002
Language: English


Publication Date: 2002
Physical Details: xiv + 272 pp. : illus.

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Authors & Contributors
Aytes, Ayhan
Crosthwaite, Paul
Décaillot, Anne-Marie
González de Posada, Francisco
González Redondo, Francisco A.
Hessler, Martina
Journals
Blätter für Technikgeschichte
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Icon: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology
Imago Mundi: A Review of Early Cartography
Publishers
University of Chicago
MIT Press
Marquette University
University of California, San Diego
Springer International Publishing
Concepts
Automata; robotics; cyborgs
Chess
Artificial intelligence
Machines
Popular culture
Technology
People
Kempelen, Wolfgang von
al-Mas'udi, Abu al-Hasan ‘Ali Ibn al-Husain
Astley, Philip
Beddoes, Thomas
Breslaw, Henry
Cox, James
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
20th century
21st century
Enlightenment
17th century
Places
Europe
Great Britain
London (England)
United States
Americas
Prussia (Germany)
Institutions
Association française pour l'avancement des sciences
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