Wolfgang von Kempelen
✶January 23, 1734
†March 26, 1804
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✶January 23, 1734
†March 26, 1804
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Johann Wolfgang von Kempelen was a writer, engineer, and inventor, known for his chess-playing "automaton" hoax The Turk and for his speaking machine.
Austrian dramatic, graphic, constructer, linguist, painter, writer, inventor and nobleman (1734-1804)
Biography from the article Wolfgang von Kempelen on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.