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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Harvard University obtained, from widowed Juliette, nearly 100,000 unpublished pages of manuscripts that included one topic called “Chance, Love and Logic: Philosophical essays.”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