Wolfgang von Kempelen

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

(Johann) Wolfgang von Kempelen (de Pázmánd) (Hungarian: Kempelen Farkas, Slovak: Ján Vlk Kempelen) (born 23 January 1734 in Pressburg (today Bratislava), died 26 March 1804 in Vienna) was an author and inventor, who became most famous for his construction of the Mechanical Turk, which was probably 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]

[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