 | 1821 - 520 pages
...executing every movement required of the automaton : his head being above the table, he will see the chess-board through the waistcoat as easily as through...delicate mechanism" than a string communicating with the finger. His right hand being within the chest, may serve to keep in motion the contrivivicc for producing... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 856 pages
...executing every movement required of the automaton : his head being above the table, he will see the chess-board through the waistcoat as easily as through...delicate mechanism' than a string communicating with the finger. His right hand, being within the chest, may serve to keep in motion the contrivance for 'producing... | |
 | Recreations - 1830 - 262 pages
...above the table, he will see the chessboard through the waistcoat as easily as through a veil; and bil left hand extending beyond the elbow of the figure,...board, and to take up and let go a chess man with a string communicating with the finger. His right hand being within the chest, may serve to keep in... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 1839 - 854 pages
...executing every movement required of the automaton : his head being above the table, he will see the chess-board through the waistcoat as easily as through...will be enabled to guide its hand to any part of the hoard, and to take up and let go a chess man with no other ' delicate mechanism' than a string communicating... | |
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... much time as he finds necessary, in apparently adjusting the machinery at the back, whilst the player is taking the position described in figs. 7 and 8. In this position he will find no difficulty in executing every movement required of the automaton... 