The Secrets of the Chess Machine, Robert Löhr There are so many good ideas in this book you can forgive the flaws. Loosely based on actual events, The Secrets of the Chess Machine tells the story of the Baron Von Kempelen, who is challenged by the Hapsburg Empress, Maria Theresia to . Vienna - Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen unveils a strange and amazing invention, the Mechanical Turk, a sensational and unbeatable chess-playing automaton. But what the Habsburg court hails as the greatest innovation of the century is really nothing more than a brilliant illusion. The chess machine is secretly operated from inside by the Italian dwarf Tibor, a God-fearing social outcast /5(4). That's why I was so excited, after all, to pick up German writer Robert Lohr's first novel, the very smart and fun action adventure The Chess Machine; because it too can be technically counted as a steampunk novel, although in this case is set around a hundred years before most of the genre's other examples, or in other words the late s. And that's because, interestingly enough, the core of the /5(K).
Robert Löhr was born in Berlin and grew up there and in Bremen and Santa Barbara, California. He trained as a journalist at the Berlin School of Journalism, then worked for Sat. 1 News and for the Berlin daily paper Der Tagesspiegel, Berliner Zeitung, Neue Zeit, and Taz, and finally as a correspondent for the Washington Post. The Chess Machine is a daring and remarkable tale, full of envy, lust, scandal, and deception. © Robert Lohr (P) Tantor Media Inc. Save 53% on your first 4 months of Audible. For a limited time, get 4 months of Audible Premium Plus for just $ per month. Get this deal. The Chess Machine Robert Löhr The Penguin Press Hardcover pages July The Chess Machine describes well the push toward greatness and the pull toward dehumanization of new technology (think Modern Times by the immortal Chaplin). Based upon a true story that had the estimable Ben Franklin try his hand at beating the infernal machine and.
And when a beautiful and seductive countess dies under mysterious circumstances in the presence of the Turk, both machine and inventor find themselves at the heart of a web of intrigue and espionage. Daring and brilliant, The Chess Machine -- based on a bizarre true story -- is a classic portrait of envy, lust, scandal, and deception."--Publisher's description. PENGUIN BOOKS THE SECRETS OF THE CHESS MACHINE Robert Löhr was born in Berlin, and grew up there and in Bremen and Santa Barbara, California. He trained as a journalist at the Berlin School. That's why I was so excited, after all, to pick up German writer Robert Lohr's first novel, the very smart and fun action adventure The Chess Machine; because it too can be technically counted as a steampunk novel, although in this case is set around a hundred years before most of the genre's other examples, or in other words the late s. And that's because, interestingly enough, the core of the novel's storyline is based around an actual object with shady origins: an actual "Mechanical.
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