Clockwork Game: The Illustrious Career of A Chess-Playing Automaton by Jane Irwin

Clockwork Game: The Illustrious Career of A Chess-Playing Automaton

Jane Irwin

211 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction comics historical adventurous slow-paced
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In 1769, the court of Empress Maria Theresia witnessed one of that era's most amazing feats of engineering: a machine that could play chess. Artfully constructed by a Hungarian nobleman named Wolfgang von Kempelen, the chess-machine played a uniqu...

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