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Portrait of Wolfgang von Kempelen
Darrin Baines · 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z
Original portrait of Wolfgang von Kempelen, the Hungarian inventor, engineer, civil servant, and polymath best known for creating the Mechanical Turk chess automaton and an early speaking machine. The portrait depicts Kempelen in formal attire characteristic of the late eighteenth century and reflects his status as one of the most innovative technological thinkers of the Enlightenment era.
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