{
  "name": "Mechanical Turk: who said what about it, when, and how they knew, 1783 to 1859",
  "desc": "Mechanical Turk: accounts, 1783 to 1859, one row per account. Compiled by Hoax and Hindsight, 2026-11-05. License of this compilation: CC BY 4.0. Column sources: all columns = the printing named in the source and page columns of the same row: [Karl Gottlieb von Windisch], Inanimate Reason (London, 1784), pp. 13-14; Philip Thicknesse, The Speaking Figure, and the Automaton Chess-Player, Exposed and Detected (London, 1784), pp. 10-11; Joseph Friedrich zu Racknitz, Ueber den Schachspieler des Herrn von Kempelen (1789), preface, translated by Hoax and Hindsight; [Robert Willis], An Attempt to Analyse the Automaton Chess Player (London, 1821); [Edgar Allan Poe], Maelzel's Chess-Player, Southern Literary Messenger 2 (April 1836), pp. 319-323; Anatomy of the Chess Automaton, Fraser's Magazine 19 (June 1839), pp. 724-729; George Allen, letter to William Lewis, in Daniel Willard Fiske, The Book of the First American Chess Congress (New York, 1859), pp. 420-483, and Fiske's own sketch, p. 46; claims are given in this site's own words; years_after_event = account_year minus event_year. Facts from sources that do not permit reuse are not included in this file; see the article's Exhibits.",
  "lic": "CC BY 4.0",
  "lic_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "by": "Hoax and Hindsight",
  "url": "https://hoaxandhindsight.com/proven-fakes/mechanical-turk/",
  "from": [
    "Windisch (London, 1784)",
    "Thicknesse (London, 1784)",
    "Racknitz (1789), preface",
    "Willis (London, 1821)",
    "Poe, Southern Literary Messenger (April 1836)",
    "Fraser's Magazine 19 (June 1839)",
    "Fiske and Allen, The Book of the First American Chess Congress (New York, 1859)"
  ],
  "how": "Compiled by Hoax and Hindsight from the data listed",
  "data_by": [
    "Public-domain printings of 1784–1859 listed in the Exhibits"
  ]
}