Behold a miniature model of “The Turk,” the world’s first and most famous chess-playing automaton. The full-size original was destroyed in a museum fire later in the 19th century. It once played a game against Napoleon Bonaparte and wiped up the board with him
The cool thing about The Turk is that it was a hoax. There was a guy inside! On the left you can see a small cabinet full of gears and such: that was only for show. The larger compartment held a human chess player who was better than Napoleon.
And everybody believed it, of course!
Just like they believe in Global Warming and the campus rape culture nowadays.
I’m sure Napoleon would have been rather annoyed if he’d found out 😀
Have you ever seen The Writer automaton? It’s amazing! It isn’t a hoax; it has a ton of miniaturized mechanisms that all work flawlessly together; and not only that, but it can also be programmed to write whatever you want it to (if it’s no longer than 28 characters, I believe).
Copy and paste this address into your address bar, or google ‘The Writer Automaton’ 🙂
I’ve seen that–cool.
Oh, never mind, it actually put the video in there; awesome 😀
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How you get from an article about a 19th-century chess hoax, to your own statement, is more than I can fathom.