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The Secrets of the Chess Machine
Author: Robert Lohr
Format: MP3 CD
Author Robert Lohr
Narrator Richard Burnip
Duration 13h 22m
In Vienna 1770, Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen unveils a strange and amazing invention, The Mechanical Turk, a sensational and unbeatable chess-playing automaton. But what the Habsburg court hails as the greatest innovation of the century is really nothing more than a brilliant illusion. The chess machine is secretly operated from inside by the Italia...
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