Ajeeb
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Vinony files it under 1868 in chess, 19th-century hoaxes and 19th-century robots.
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- automated machine
- Sport
- chess
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- Harvard Theatre Collection - Ajeeb the Wonderful TCS 1.183 - cropped.jpg
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thumb|right|Photo of "Ajeeb the Wonderful", 1886 right|thumb|An advertisement for an exhibition of Ajeeb, including an illustration of its appearance. Ajeeb was an imitation of Mechanical Turk|the Turk.
Ajeeb was a chess-playing "automaton", created by Charles Hooper (a cabinet maker), first presented at the Royal Polytechnical Institute in 1868. A piece of faux mechanical technology (while presented as entirely automated, it in fact concealed a strong human chess player inside), it drew scores of thousands of spectators to its games, the opponents for which included Harry Houdini, Theodore Roosevelt, and O. Henry.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ajeeb” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.