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Description: The idea for this project was inspired in part by the story of “The Turk”, a chess-playing automaton of the 18th century, made by Wolfgang von Kempelen. It toured Europe, beating the likes of Napoleon Bonaparte and Benjamin Franklin. It was later revealed that this “machine” was not an automaton at all, but was in fact a chess master hidden in a special compartment controlling its operations. Likewise, the Mechanische Postkarte allows human
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