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

Author: Tom Standage Year: 2002 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Science Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780425190395 0425190390

This is the true account of the 18th-century mechanical man, powered by clockwork, dressed in a Turkish costume, and capable of playing chess. Created by a Hungarian nobleman, the machine-man known as The Turk traveled Europe and America, made the acquaintance of Benjamin Franklin, Catherine the Great, Napoleon Bonaparte, and Edgar Allan Poe. Similar books: A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage Birth of the Chess Queen by Marilyn Yalom An Edible History of Humanity by Tom Standage The Immortal Game by David Shenk The Code Book by Simon Singh The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan A Man on the Moon by Andrew Chaikin The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert Cod by Mark Kurlansky Salt by Mark Kurlansky The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough Hackers by Steven Levy The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan The Cracking Code Book by Simon Singh The Demon in the Freezer by Richard Preston The Information by James Gleick Meetings with Remarkable Trees by Thomas Pakenham Reading the Forested Landscape by Tom Wessels Changes in the Land by William Cronon