Soon afterwards, however, the machine’s creator, Wolfgang von Kempelen, became strangely reluctant to exhibit it, and the Turk was not seen again until it returned for a triumphal tour of Europe in ...

Kempelen’s Mechanical Turk In 1770s a Hungarian bureaucrat called Wolfgang von Kempelen presented a show with an automaton that he had built. An automaton is a machine that operates on its own ...

In 1779, a mechanical contrivance by Wolfgang von Kempelen, famous for the mechanical Turk chess-playing automaton, could form simple words. By 1939, Bell Labs could do even better speech ...

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The same could be said of the innards of an automaton built in 1769 by the Hungarian Wolfgang von Kempelen and known as the Mechanical Turk, which played chess exceptionally well, but only because ...

3: Chess-playing Turk by Wolfgang von Kempelen (1789). Source: Joseph Friedrich Freyherr zu Racknitz,: Über den Schachspieler des Herrn von Kempelen und dessen Nachbildung, Joh. Gottl. Immanuel ...

The inventor of the machine, Wolfgang von Kempelen, claimed it could play chess automatically of its own accord, but hidden inside the box was a human chess master who operated it through a series ...