FOR a military operation to run like clockwork is the dream of every tactician. It is an old metaphor, of course: clockwork was the first complex precision machinery to be devised by man and it now ...
The inside story of an ingenious chess-playing machine that thrilled crowds, terrified opponents, and won like clockwork. One autumn day in 1769, a 35-year-old civil servant was summoned to the ...
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