Leonardo Torres y Quevedo Summary

Leonardo Torres Y Quevedo 1852-1936 Spanish mathematician and engineer who built an algebraic equation-solving machine, a robot that could play a chess endgame, and in 1920 demonstrated that calculati... Read more

Spanish scientist Leonardo Torres y Quevedo constructed during the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century several relay-activated, electromechanical calculating machines that "played" che... Read more