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Wolfgang von Kempelen

(Kempelen, Wolfgang von, 1734-1804)

Johann Wolfgang von Kempelen (Hungarian: Kempelen Farkas; 23 January 1734 – 26 March 1804) was a Hungarian author, engineer, and inventor, known for his chess-playing "automaton" hoax The Turk and for his speaking machine. (From Wikipedia)

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Ueber den Schachspieler des Herrn von Kempelen und Dessen Nachbildung (in German; Leipzig and Dresden: J. G. I. Breitkopf, 1789), by Joseph Friedrich Racknitz (page images at HathiTrust)
Letters of Charles Gottlieb de Windisch on the Automaton Chess-Player of Mr. de Kempelen: A Free Translation From the German (London: Printed by R. Brown, 1819), by Karl Gottlieb Windisch (page images at HathiTrust)

4 additional books about Wolfgang von Kempelen in the extended shelves:

Ueber den Schachspieler des herrn von Kempelen : nebst einer Abbildung und Beschreibung seiner Sprachmaschine. (J. G. Müller, 1784), by Karl Friedrich Hindenburg (page images at HathiTrust)
Gold-bug and other tales. (New York, in the 19th century), by Edgar Allan Poe (page images at HathiTrust)
Edgar Allan Poe and Baron von Kempelen's chess-playing automaton. (International Brotherhood of Magicians, 1939), by Henry Ridgely Evans (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The history and analysis of the supposed automaton chess player of M. de Kempelen, now exhibiting in this country by Mr. Maelzel; with lithographic figures, illustrative of the probable method by which its motions are directed. (Hilliard, Gray, 1826), by Gamaliel Bradford (page images at HathiTrust)

Books by Wolfgang von Kempelen:

Kempelen, Wolfgang von, 1734-1804: Le Mécanisme de la Parole, Suivi de la Description d'une Machine Parlante (in French; Vienna: B. Baueur and J. V. Degen, 1791)
Kempelen, Wolfgang von, 1734-1804: Mechanismus der Menschlichen Sprache Nebst der Beschreibung Seiner Sprechenden Maschine (in German; Vienna: J. B. Degen, 1791) (PDF at OHSU; 66 MB)

Additional books by Wolfgang von Kempelen in the extended shelves:

Kempelen, Wolfgang von, 1734-1804: Andromeda und Perseus : ein Schauspiel mit Musik. (zu finden beym Logenmeister, 1780), also by Benedikt Dominik Anton Cremeri and Anton Zimmermann (page images at HathiTrust)
Kempelen, Wolfgang von, 1734-1804: Wolfgangs von Kempelen k.k. wirklichen Hofraths Mechanismus der menschlichen Sprache : nebst der Beschreibung seiner sprechenden Maschine. (J.V. Degen, 1791), also by J. G. Mansfeld and Heinrich Füger (page images at HathiTrust)

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