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In 1769, the court of Empress Maria Theresia witnessed one of that era's most amazing feats of engineering: a machine that could play chess. Artfully constructed by a Hungarian nobleman named Wolfgang von Kempelen, the chess-machine played a unique game against each opponent, far surpassing the abilities of all its fellow automata. Throughout its eighty-five year career, audiences across Europe and the Americas flocked to see the mechanical marvel seemingly capable of human intelligence; Napoleon, Charles Babbage, and Benjamin Franklin were among its challengers, and Edgar Allen Poe wrote an essay attempting to explain how it worked. Despite its demise over a hundred fifty years ago, its mystery continues to fascinate, and its audience's reaction to its Orientalist trappings casts fresh light on our present sense of the 'exotic'. Written and Illustrated by Jane Irwin, author of the Vgelein graphic novels, Clockwork Gam e retells the true story of the world's first chess-playing automaton, blending reality and fiction into a singular graphic novel.

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Author

a graphic novel by Jane Irwin

Publisher

FIERY STUDIOS INC

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780974311029

Category

comic or graphic novel

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Graphic Novel, Fiction

Rating

3.94 / 5 (36 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14