Wolfgang von Kempelen (1734-1804)
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https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/persinst/32655
- Name (English)
- Wolfgang von Kempelen
- Short name
- Wolfgang von Kempelen
- Year of birth
- 1734
- Year of death
- 1804
- Short Description
- "Johann Wolfgang Ritter von Kempelen de Pázmánd (Hungarian: Kempelen Farkas; 23 January 1734 – 26 March 1804) was a Hungarian author and inventor, known for his chess-playing "automaton" hoax The Turk and for his speaking machine." - (en.wikipedia.org 05.11.2019)
- Entity Encoding
- piz
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Schachtürke, früher Automat
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Object information
Image: Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum - CC BY-NC-SA
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