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OverviewIn the late eighteenth century Hungarian inventor Wolfgang von Kempelen, inspired by the success of his Mechanical Turk, which purported to be an automaton capable of playing chess, set out to create a machine that could actually speak, simulating the organs of speech by means of a series of bellows, pipes, and valves. His narrative of his efforts, together with a typically Enlightenment-era exposition of properties of human languages, appeared in slightly different German and French versions in 1791. The present work represents the first English-language translation of the French edition, augmented with linguistic and bibliographical information lacking in the original. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Wolfgang Von Kempelen , Bert Vaux , Rivka HylandPublisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers Imprint: Wipf & Stock Publishers Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.463kg ISBN: 9781725261853ISBN 10: 1725261855 Pages: 218 Publication Date: 14 April 2022 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationWolfgang von Kempelen (full name Johann Wolfgang Ritter von Kempelen de P�zm�nd, 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 Reader in Phonology and Morphology at Cambridge University and a fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Rivka Hyland is a Rhodes Scholar and a graduate of Harvard and Oxford Universities. She lives and works in Istanbul. Amanda McHugh is reading for an undergraduate degree in Linguistics at King's College, Cambridge. Shushan 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, Massachusetts. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |