Wolfgang von Kempelen
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A charcoal self-portrait of Kempelen with signature.
(Johann) Wolfgang von Kempelen (de Pázmánd) (Hungarian: Kempelen Farkas, Slovak: Ján Vlk Kempelen) (born 23 January 1734 in Pressburg (present-day Bratislava), died 26 March 1804 in Vienna) was an author and inventor, who became most famous for his construction of The Turk, which was a chess-playing automaton later revealed to be a hoax, and a manually operated speaking machine,[1][2] which was a genuine pioneering step in experimental phonetics.
[edit] Bibliography
- Vajda Pál: Nagy magyar feltalálók. Bp., 1958.; Pap János: Kempelen Farkas.
- Magyar tudóslexikon. Főszerk. Nagy Ferenc. Bp., 1997.
- Homer Dudley and T. H. Tarnoczy. The Speaking Machine of Wolfgang von Kempelen. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, March 1950, Volume 22, Issue 2, pp. 151-166. [1]
- Robert Löhr, "The Chess Machine" (Penguin Press, 2007) is a novel about Kempelen and his chess-playing hoax. Translated from the German by Anthea Bell.
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"The Turk" reconstruction of the chess-playing automaton
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Angéla Imre: On the personality of Wolfgang von Kempelen, in: Grazer Linguistische Studien 63 (2004), pp. 61-64
- Wolfgang von Kempelen on the Web
- Wolfgang von Kempelen's speaking machine and its successors
- The Chess-playing Turk
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