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Permanent exhibition > Exhibition areas > The mechanization of information technology > Early automatons – miracles of technology > Video of the Chess Turk

Video of the Chess Turk

Präsentation des Schachtürken im HNF
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The first public presentation of the Chess Turk at the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum took place on 25 March 2004 with Heiko Grosche as Butler Anton.
The mechanization of information technology
  • Visual and electric telegraphy – Overcoming distance
  • Calculating machines – Ideas, inventors, entrepreneurs
  • Typewriters – From the idea to a standard
  • Cash registers – Posting, calculating, deposits
  • Telephones and teleprinters – Direct communications
  • Punched card systems – Early days of data processing
  • Early automatons – miracles of technology
    • The Chess Turk has been brought back to life
    • Wolfgang von Kempelen’s Chess Turk
    • The reconstruction of the HNF’s Chess Turk
    • Video of the Chess Turk
  • Cryptography – The world of codes and ciphers
  • Typewriters – Mass products for the office
  • Calculating machines – Mass products in engineering and administration
  • Office mechanic's workshop in the 1950s/1960s
  • Accounting machines – Debit and credit
  • Automatic telephone exchange – Electromechanical switching replaces the operator

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    • Hall of Fame
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    • Wall of Fame – pioneers of the digital world
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