INVENTOR

Wolfgang von Kempelen

1734 - 1804

Photo of Wolfgang von Kempelen

Icon of person Wolfgang von Kempelen

Johann Wolfgang Ritter von Kempelen de Pázmánd (Hungarian: Kempelen Farkas; 23 January 1734 – 26 March 1804) was a Hungarian author and inventor, known for his chess-playing "automaton" hoax The Turk and for his speaking machine. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wolfgang von Kempelen has received more than 205,299 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Wolfgang von Kempelen is the 90th most popular inventor (up from 96th in 2019), the 25th most popular biography from Slovakia (down from 24th in 2019) and the most popular Slovak Inventor.

Wolfgang von Kempelen was a Hungarian nobleman and inventor. He is most famous for his chess playing automaton, the Mechanical Turk.

Memorability Metrics

  • 210k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 62.15

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.05

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Wolfgang von Kempelen ranks 90 out of 426. Before him are James Hargreaves, Richard Arkwright, Vladimir K. Zworykin, Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Mary the Jewess, and William Webb Ellis. After him are Henri Coandă, Étienne-Jules Marey, André-Jacques Garnerin, Daniel Swarovski, Elisha Otis, and Franz Reichelt.

Most Popular Inventors in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1734, Wolfgang von Kempelen ranks 8. Before him are Maria I of Portugal, Taksin, François-Joseph Gossec, Sophie of France, Cardinal de Rohan, and Anna Göldi. After him are Grigory Orlov, Charles Alexandre de Calonne, Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière, Joseph Wright of Derby, Shahrokh Shah, and George Romney. Among people deceased in 1804, Wolfgang von Kempelen ranks 9. Before him are Alexander Hamilton, Jacques Necker, Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria, Pierre Méchain, and Louis Antoine, Duke of Enghien. After him are Johann Friedrich Gmelin, Princess Carolina of Parma, Jean-Charles Pichegru, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Jazzar Pasha, and Antoine Baumé.

Others Born in 1734

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1804

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Wolfgang von Kempelen ranks 25 out of 418. Before him are Vojtech Tuka (1880), Tibor Sekelj (1912), Jozef Gabčík (1912), Milan Rastislav Štefánik (1880), Zuzana Čaputová (1973), and Rudolf Schuster (1934). After him are Pribina (800), Ľudovít Štúr (1815), Andrej Hlinka (1864), Ernst von Dohnányi (1877), Gyula Andrássy the Younger (1860), and Edita Gruberová (1946).

Others born in Slovakia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among INVENTORS In Slovakia

Among inventors born in Slovakia, Wolfgang von Kempelen ranks 1. After him are Slavoljub Eduard Penkala (1871), Aurel Stodola (1859), Jozef Murgaš (1864), and Kálmán Tihanyi (1897).

Slovak born Inventors

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous