Wolfgang von (de Pámánd) Kempelen or Kempelen Farkas or Ján Vlk Kempelen (born 23 January 1734 in Pressburg (today Bratislava), died 26 March 1804 in Vienna) was an author and inventor, who became most famous for his construction of the Mechanical Turk, which was a first-class hoax, and a manually operated speaking machine, which was a genuine pioneer step in experimental phonetics.

1734 births | 1804 deaths | German scientists | Hungarian scientists | Slovak scientists | Chess automatons

Wolfgang von Kempelen | Johann Wolfgang von Kempelen | Volfgangs fon Kempelens | Kempelen Farkas | Кемпелен, Вольфганг фон | Ján Wolfgang Kempelen