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»Again«, 2007, by Todd Pavlisko.




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Functional replica of Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen’s Chess Turk recreated by the Heinz Nixdorf Museum in Paderborn (In 1769 the Hungarian engineer Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen built a chess playing machine for the amusement of the Austrian Queen Maria Theresia. It was a mechanical device, shaped like a Turk, and it became the most famous automaton in history).