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while it
still existed.
Constructed and
unveiled in 1770 by
Wolfgang von
Kempelen (1734–1804) to
impress Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, the mechanism...
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Johann Wolfgang Ritter von
Kempelen de Pázmánd (Hungarian:
Kempelen Farkas; 23
January 1734 – 26
March 1804) was a
Hungarian author, engineer, and inventor...
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Wolfgang von
Kempelen's speaking machine is a
manually operated speech synthesizer that
began development in 1769, by Austro-Hungarian
author and inventor...
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entertain government officers of Buda. The
plans were made by
Wolfgang von
Kempelen. A part of the
crypt under the
sanctuary was
rebuilt as a trap room, and...
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called Spirit of Berlin. He and his team were
awarded the
Wolfgang von
Kempelen Prize for his work on
Konrad Zuse and the
history of computers. Although...
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invented by
Wolfgang von
Kempelen in 1769 and was
brought to the U.S. in 1825 by
Johann Nepomuk Mälzel
after von
Kempelen's death. In his essay, Poe ****erts...
- Vaucanson,
Leonardo Torres y Quevedo,
Pierre Jaquet-Droz and
Wolfgang von
Kempelen. The
oldest known automata were the
sacred statues of
ancient Egypt and...
- Sir
Charles Wheatstone based on the
earlier work of
Baron Wolfgang von
Kempelen. The
rudimentary "mechanical man"
simulated a
human voice. Bell was fascinated...
- 1769, a chess-playing
machine called the Turk,
created by
Wolfgang von
Kempelen, made the
rounds of the
courts of
Europe purporting to be an automaton...
- A
reward for his
capture is
offered but he is
sheltered by
Baron von
Kempelen, an
inventor of
lifelike automata, who
plans to
smuggle Vorowski, a skilful...
