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 ...

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We get it. We also watched Star Trek and thought how cool it would be to talk to our computer. From Kirk setting a self-destruct sequence, to Scotty talking into a mouse, or Picard ordering Earl ...

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The chess-playing Turk: A hoax and legacy Another famous 18th-century automaton was The Turk-an amazing chess-playing machine invented by Wolfgang von Kempelen in 1770. Unlike Maillardet's ...

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 ...

and Wolfgang von Kempelen. Ktesibios is regarded as the inventor of the water clock (clepsydra) and the pinned cylinder. These were used repeatedly in water organs. Heron was extraordinarily creative: ...