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Birth
On this day, Charles Sanders Pierce was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His father was Benjamin Pierce who was a known mathematician teaching at the Harvard University for approximately 50 years total. Peirce, Charles Sanders, “birth”, philosopher, page 1, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_gate -
Publish of Photometric Resources
Authored and published a181-page book on photometric resources that covered the monograph on the applications of spectrographic methods used in astronomy. This was based on findings from the astronomical observatory -
Discovery of electrical switching circuits
Around this time, he discovered logical operations could be carried out by electrical switching circuits. Broken down this means that the discovery of one or more binary inputs, produced a single binary output. Which was later on used for digital circuit computers. Peirce, Charles Sanders, “”, philosopher, page 1, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sanders_Peirce -
Death
Peirce had passed in Milford, Pennsylvania and was survived by his wife second wife, Juliette, of which they both lived on a small farm near the Delaware River. There were no children from his first or second marriage. Peirce, Charles Sanders, “death”, philosopher, page 1, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_gate -
After death findings
Harvard University obtained, from widowed Juliette, nearly 100,000 unpublished pages of manuscripts that included one topic called “Chance, Love and Logic: Philosophical essays.” This was later microfilmed. Peirce, Charles Sanders, “after death”, philosopher, page 1, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_gate