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    Johann Wolfgang Ritter von Kempelen de Pázmánd (Hungarian: Kempelen Farkas; 23 January 1734 – 26 March 1804) was a Hungarian author and inventor, known...
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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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    public 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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    automaton was 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...
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  • Turk, following observation of the performance by the Hungarian Wolfgang von Kempelen. Correspondance littéraire, philosophique et critique, January 1770...
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  • Van Halen Wolfgang von Kempelen (1734–1804), Hungarian author and inventor Wolfgang von Leyden (1911–2004), German philosopher Wolfgang von Schweinitz...
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    models. Voice computing has a rich history. First, scientists like Wolfgang Kempelen started to build speech machines to produce the earliest synthetic...
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    project 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....
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  • machine named the Mechanical Turk. Created by Hungarian inventor Wolfgang von Kempelen, the Mechanical Turk, a life sized human model, debuted in 1770...
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    Riedinger, and for correspondence the hand-printing machine invented by Wolfgang von Kempelen. Her songs are mostly representative of the operatic style, which...
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    developed by Sir Charles Wheatstone based on the earlier work of Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen. The rudimentary "mechanical man" simulated a human voice. Bell...
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    Yan Shi, Hero of Alexandria, Al-Jazari, Pierre Jaquet-Droz, and Wolfgang von Kempelen. The oldest known automata were the sacred statues of ancient Egypt...
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    Prometheus. The ultimate attempt at automation was The Turk by Wolfgang von Kempelen, a seemingly sophisticated machine that could play chess against...
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    flesh. In 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...
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  • followed the bellows-operated "acoustic-mechanical speech machine" of Wolfgang von Kempelen of Pressburg, Hungary, described in a 1791 paper. This machine added...
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  • by "The Turk", an 18th-century chess-playing automaton made by Wolfgang von Kempelen that toured Europe, and beat both Napoleon Bonaparte and Benjamin...
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    to 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...
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    supply for the castle was not sufficient, Maria Theresa had Johann Wolfgang von Kempelen build a special water pipe drawing water from a tank in the town...
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  • Hungarian architect, painter, essayist, and graphic artist Farkas Kempelen, or Wolfgang von Kempelen Gordon Farkas, a character in the 1990 Australian film, The...
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  • Sir William Jones invents Caïssa, the chess muse. 1769 – Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen builds the Mechanical Turk, a fake chess-playing humanoid "machine"...
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  • JSTOR 2371045. K. Zuse (1936). Verfahren zur selbsttätigen Durchführung von Rechnungen mit Hilfe von Rechenmaschinen. Patent application Z 23 139 / GMD Nr. 005/021...
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    by AlphaZero are still extremely rare in computer chess. 1769 – Wolfgang von Kempelen builds the Turk. Presented as a chess-playing automaton, it is secretly...
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  • Valier The Turk, a chess-playing automaton and Wolfgang von Kempelen's Speaking Machine by Wolfgang von Kempelen English inventions and discoveries Science...
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  • Thomas Jefferson Pope John Paul II Mór Jókai Franz Kafka Carmen Kass Wolfgang von Kempelen Omar Khayyám Ephraim Kishon (satirist, Kishon Chesster chess computer)...
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    Parisian admirer for 120,000 francs. In 1805 Maelzel purchased Wolfgang von Kempelen's half-forgotten automaton chess player, The Turk, took it to Paris...
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  • Amsterdam. Copley Medal: John Theophilus Desaguliers January 23 – Wolfgang von Kempelen, Hungarian inventor (died 1804) April 18 – Elsa Beata Bunge, Swedish...
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  • challenge humans to chess matches. The device had been invented by Wolfgang von Kempelen. The "red fez" in the story is a reference to this figure, known...
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  • was shipwrecked many times and was living on an isolated island. Wolfgang von Kempelen (1734–1804), inventor, born in Pozsony Eduard Nepomuk Kozics (1829–1874)...
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  • 1837). However, historically confirmed speech synthesis begins with Wolfgang von Kempelen (1734–1804), who published an account of his research in 1791 (see...
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  • steam-powered artillery tractor (or 'automobile') in France (see drawing). Wolfgang von Kempelen begins development of his speaking machine. March 16 – Louis Antoine...
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