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'(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.

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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.

References

1. Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University
2. Haskins Laboratories Article

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