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was an Spanish engineer and mathematician, influenced by the work of the English mathematician [|Charles Babbage] (1791-1871) and his [|analytical engine]. Torres was most famous for the [|Aero Cable Car] on the Canadian side of the [|Niagara River] and analogue calculating machines.
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 * > [[image:cn4482_torres.jpg width="121" height="199" link="http://www.tri.org.au/chess/Spain55.html"]] ||~  || **Leonardo Torres y Quevedo**, (December 28, 1852 – December 18, 1936)

In 1910 he began (other sources state 1890, or 1901) to construct a chess automaton, El Ajedrecista (The Chessplayer). In 1912 it was able to automatically play a white king and rook against the black king. A second, mechanical but not algorithmic improved El Ajedrecista was built by Leonardo Torres Quevedo's son **Gonzalo** in 1922, under the direction of his father. At the 1951 Paris Cybernetic Congress the advanced machine was introduced to a greater audience and explained to Norbert Wiener. || toc =IEEE Recognition= On March 17, 2007, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) recognized Torres’ [|Telekine] with an [|IEEE Milestone] in [|Electrical Engineering] and [|Computing]. The dedication was held at the Torres Quevedo Museum of Engineering, Institute of Civil Engineering, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, where also a functional El Ajedrecista can be visited.
 * Torres Stamp ||~  ||^   ||

=Publications=
 * Henri Vigneron (**1914**). //Les Automates//. [|La Nature], [|pdf] from [|cyberneticzoo.com], Translation by David Levy as //Robots// in David Levy, Monroe Newborn (**1982**). //All About Chess and Computers//. [|Springer], pp. 14-23, also in David Levy (ed.) (**1988**). //Computer Chess Compendium//, pp. 273-278.
 * [|Brian Randell] (**1982**). //From Analytical Engine to Electronic Digital Computer: The Contributions of Ludgate, Torres, and Bush//. [|Annals of the History of Computing], Vol. 4, No. 4, October 1982, [|pdf]
 * [|Antonio Pérez Yuste], [|Magdalena Salazar Palma] (**2004**). //The First Wireless Remote-Control: The Telekine of Torres Quevedo//. [|pdf]

=External Links=
 * [|Leonardo Torres y Quevedo from Wikipedia]
 * [|Cyber Heroes of the past: Leonardo Torres y Quevedo]
 * [|History of Computers and Computing, Babbage, Leonardo Torres]
 * [|Torres Quevedo] (Spanish)
 * [|Die Schachautomaten des Torres Quevedo] by Hans-Peter Ketterling, [|Schachklub Tempelhof] (German)

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