Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen's Automaton "The Turk" or the "Automatic Turk" (1769)
Levitt, Gerald M. 2000. The Turk, Chess Automaton. Jefferson NC: Mcfarland & Company Inc Publishers. John Hay Library-on reserve. (The scanned images below are from this book).
Standage, Tom; 2002. The Turk: The life and tiimes of the famous Eighteenth-Century chess playing machine. New York: Berkley Books.
Wood, Gaby; 2002. Living dolls: a magical history of the quest for mechanical life. London: Faber and Faber.
