#hoax

Stories tagged “hoax” in the Weird Science History archive — 2 stories connected by this topic.

• Piltdown Man: The Fake Fossil That Fooled Science for 40 Years
• The Chess-Playing Machine That Beat Napoleon (With a Man Hidden Inside)

Related topics: #archaeology #artificial-intelligence #automaton #Charles Dawson #chess #history-of-computing #human evolution #mechanical-turk