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	Chessville - Reviews - Turk, The
		Kempelen was well versed in physics, mechanics, and hydraulics, and was a trusted servant of the empress.
		Kempelen's work on the mechanism of human speech eventually established his reputation as the founder of the discipline known today as experimental phonetics.
		Wolfgang von Kempelen, the Turk's creator, is almost universally referred to as a baron, but he wasn't one.
	www.chessville.com /reviews/reviews_turk.htm (2577 words)

	Background Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Background Notes on Davy, (Von) Kempelen, Brewster, Babbage, Arago, and Maelzel
		Wolfgang Von Kempelen was involved in the invention of automatons, which are essentially robots.
		In 1779, he won a prize from the St. Petersburg Academy of Science when he created a model of the human vocal cords.
	www.geocities.com /Area51/Corridor/4220/davy-kemp.html (301 words)

	Wikipedia: 1769
		Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen exhibits the "Mechanical Turk", a chess-playing machine
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	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/1/17/1769.html (400 words)

	The Turk - Welcome to TheTurkBook.com! The Turk, The New Book by Tom Standage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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		Wolfgang von Kempelen's and the subsequent speaking machines
		Von Kempelen and his Discovery (2, 3, 4),
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