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Technical Cross-Section Drawings of the Mechanical Turk Cabinet
Darrin Baines · 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z
Technical plate containing multiple cross-sectional views of the Mechanical Turk chess automaton cabinet. The drawings illustrate the internal compartments, mechanisms, and concealed spaces used in the operation of Wolfgang von Kempelen's famous eighteenth-century chess-playing machine. These diagrams were published to explain the construction and internal arrangement of one of history's most celebrated automata.
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