eine Kempelensche Sprechmaschine". New Insights in Speaking Machines in the Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries
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It was in 1791 that Wolfgang von Kempelen published the Mechanismus der menschlichen Sprache nebst der Beschreibung seiner sprechenden Maschine in Vienna, the last part of which is dedicated to the description of the speaking machine he had worked on for many years. In some parts of his book Kempelen refers to ideas he hadn’t been able to put into practice at that time and asks the readers to further develop the machine.
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