he automate of the mount Schönbrunn
Despite his incredible skills as a war strategist, Napoleon was not an excellent chess player. During his war campaign of Wagram he had a short stop at Schönbrunn. There, he played chess against an automate that beat him easily and humiliated him.
The machine made by Austrian engineer Von Kempelen, was made of a Turkish automate, working on a desk with fake gearings. In fact, as discovered in 1834, a small man was playing inside the machine, helped by a clever mirror system. But Napoleon died ignoring he was not beat by an automate but by a real human.