The Mechanical Turk: The Machine With a Man Inside

<p>In seventeen seventy, a machine sat down to play chess — a carved wooden figure in a turban that beat courtiers, diplomats, and, it is said, Napoleon himself. For eighty-four years the greatest minds in Europe and America tried to work out how it thought. It didn't. There was a person folded up in the box.</p><p>August Mercer reveals the beautiful, cruel secret of the automaton that fooled the world. This is Six Feet of History — five minutes of the past they'd rather you forget.</p><p><em>Follow for a new story every day. A Dark Whisper Studios production.</em></p><p><em>#history #truehistory #truestories</em></p>