Wolfgang Von Kempelen

Wolfgang von Kempelen (full name Johann Wolfgang Ritter von Kempelen de Pazmand, 1734-1804) was a Hungarian writer and polymath, best known for his creation of the (supposedly) chess-playing Mechanical Turk and the speaking machine. Bert Vaux is Professor of Phonology and Morphology at Cambridge University and a fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Rivka Brod Hyland is a Rhodes Scholar and a graduate of Harvard and Oxford Universities. She lives and works in Istanbul. Amanda McHugh holds BA and...See more

Wolfgang von Kempelen (full name Johann Wolfgang Ritter von Kempelen de Pazmand, 1734-1804) was a Hungarian writer and polymath, best known for his creation of the (supposedly) chess-playing Mechanical Turk and the speaking machine. Bert Vaux is Professor of Phonology and Morphology at Cambridge University and a fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Rivka Brod Hyland is a Rhodes Scholar and a graduate of Harvard and Oxford Universities. She lives and works in Istanbul. Amanda McHugh holds BA and MPhil degrees in Linguistics from King's College, Cambridge University, with specialisms in phonetics and French. Shushan M. Teager, an alumna of Wellesley College and MIT, is a retired research associate at the Boston University School of Medicine where she worked with her late husband, Professor Herbert Teager, chief of the department of biomedical engineering, on mapping air flow in the vocal tract during phonation. She lives in Belmont, MA. See less