Ajeeb

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Invention

Domain

Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

Ajeeb was a chess-playing "automaton", created by Charles Hooper, a cabinet maker. It was first presented at the Royal Polytechnical Institute in 1868.

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Image: Falk, New York (photographer), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.