Speech Production Researchers - Wolfgang Von Kempelen, Elliot Saltzman, David Ostry, Lawrence Raphael, Janwillem Van Den Berg (Paperback)

Chapters: Wolfgang Von Kempelen, Elliot Saltzman, David Ostry, Lawrence Raphael, Janwillem Van Den Berg. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 20. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Johann Wolfgang Ritter von Kempelen de Pazmand (Hungarian: ) (23 January 1734 26 March 1804) was a Hungarian author and inventor with Irish ancestors. Kempelen was from Pozsony (hung.)/Pressburg(germ.), Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire(today Bratislava, Slovakia). His ennobled father was Engelbert (1680-1761) Kempelens mother was Agnes Mohai.The Kempelen family settled 1640 in Pozsony/Pressburg.He studied law and philosophy in his birthplace, and then in Gyr, in Vienna and in later Rome, but mathematics and physics also interested him. He started to work as a clerk in Vienna. He was most famous for his construction of The Turk, a chess-playing automaton later revealed to be a hoax. He also created a manually operated speaking machine, which was a genuine pioneering step in experimental phonetics. Kempelen died in Vienna. The Wolfgang von Kempelen Computing Science History Prize was named in his honor. Regarding personal names: Ritter is a title, translated approximately as Knight, not a first or middle name. There is no equivalent female form. ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=11441