Torres Quevedo, Leonardo (1852-1936)
Leonardo Torres Quevedo (1916). Public Domain
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«Cuando se me presentó el momento de tomar puesto en el Escalafón estaba ya convencido de mi poco amor al trabajo metódico y disciplinado de las oficinas, y renuncié a él para dedicarme a pensar en mis cosas; ya estaba poseído por la fiebre del inventor que había de padecer toda mi vida»
GENERAL INFO
| Description: Leonardo Torres Quevedo was an Spanish civil engineer, mathematician and inventor. He was an innovator and mechanical genius who built a chess-playing automaton in 1912 called “El Ajedrecista” that worked on Hertzian waves, of which he was one of the first scientists to use them to direct maneuvers at a distance. “El Ajedrecista” was one of the first autonomous machines capable for playing chess. In 1922 the Sorbonne named Leonardo an Honorary Doctor. |
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| Sex: Male | Occupation: Engineer, mathematician and inventor |
| Place of Birth / Death: Cantabria, Santander, Spain / Madrid, Spain. | Country Tags: Spain. |
| Centuries: XIX-XX | School: Escuela Oficial del Cuerpo de Ingenieros de Caminos. Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences |
IN MUSICHESS
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External links
- Chess Programing.org: El Ajedrecista: https://www.chessprogramming.org/El_Ajedrecista – [30/09/2020].
- Leonardo Torres Quevedo in DelBarrio: http://www.delbarrio.eu/torresquevedo.htm – [30/09/2020].
- Leonardo Torres Quevedo in EcuRed: https://www.ecured.cu/Leonardo_Torres_Quevedo – [30/09/2020].
- Leonardo Torres Quevedo in History-Computer: https://history-computer.com/Dreamers/Torres_chess.html – [30/09/2020].
- Leonardo Torres Quevedo official website: http://www.torresquevedo.org/ – [30/09/2020].
- Leonardo Torres Quevedo in Páginas Personales Deusto: http://paginaspersonales.deusto.es/airibar/Ed_digital/INF/Intro/LTQ.html – [30/09/2020].
- Wikipedia.org: El ajedrecista: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Ajedrecista – [30/09/2020].
- Wikipedia.org: Leonardo Torres Quevedo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_Torres_y_Quevedo – [30/09/2020].
- Wikiquote.org: Leonardo Torres Quevedo: https://es.wikiquote.org/wiki/Leonardo_Torres_Quevedo – [30/09/2020].
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- Robert Löhr; Anthea Bell (2007). The chess machine. Penguin Group USA.
- Stephen Patrick Rice (2004). Minding the Machine: Languages of Class in Early Industrial America. University of California Press.
- Sunnucks, Anne (1976). The Encyclopaedia of Chess. London: Hale.
