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The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine - Hardcover

Standage, Tom

 
9780802713919: The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0802713912 ISBN 13: 9780802713919
Verlag: Walker & Co, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

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. Serial in Wired.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Tom Standage is technology editor at The Economist magazine and the author of four history books, "A History of the World in Six Glasses" (2005), "The Turk" (2002), "The Neptune File" (2000) and "The Victorian Internet" (1998), two of which have been serialized as "Book of the Week" on Radio 4. "The Victorian Internet was made into a Channel 4 documentary, "How The Victorians Wired the World". Tom has previously covered science and technology for a number of newspapers and magazines, including The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, Wired and Prospect. He holds a degree in engineering and computer science from Oxford University, and is the least musical member of a musical family. He is married and lives in Greenwich, London, with his wife and daughter.

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Verlag
Walker & Co
Erscheinungsdatum
2002
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0802713912
ISBN 13 
9780802713919
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
272
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Giunti Editore
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