age ~88
from Tampa, FL
In 1770, Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen introduces Vienna to the Mechanical Turk?an unbeatable chess-playing automaton that, unbeknownst to an astonished Europe, is in fact nothing more than an illusion. The Turk is actually operated from within by a God-fearing dwarf named Tibor, whose chess-playing a...
Author
Robert Lohr
Binding
Paperback
Pages
352
Publisher
Penguin Books
ISBN #
0143114360
EAN Code
9780143114369
ISBN #
1