A Chess “Robot” Beat Grand Masters In The 18th Century - Sort Of

Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
05/07/2022 3 min Temporada 4 Episodio 803

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Episode Synopsis

Today in 1854, the end of one of the great hoaxes of its day: a fire in a Philadelphia museum destroyed what people of that time thought was a super-intelligent chess robot. Plus: today in 2011, people in a skyscraper in Seoul, South Korea, reported the building shaking like it'd been in an earthquake. The real cause was a lot more down to earth. 
How a Phony 18th Century Chess Robot Fooled the World (History.com)
Korea solves mystery of shaking skyscraper (SF Gate)
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