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Sunday, January 15, 2006

THE AUTOMATON CHESS-PLAYER (PART II)


In an earlier pamphlet, published in Paris in 1785, the writer supposed the machine was put in motion by a dwarf, a famous chess-player, his legs and thighs being concealed in two hollow cylinders, while the rest of his body was out of the box, and hidden by the robes of the figure.
Read part I
Read part II
Read part III

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