[peirce-l] Re: Peirce invented the "electric switching computer?"

[Jim Piat]

Dear Steven,   In Ken Ketner's book "His Glassy Essence" it is mentioned on page 196 that Peirce's brother, Ben "met Charles Babbage to discuss mechanized computing".. .  For whatever that's worth.  I believe Ken Ketner is an electrical engineer as well as philosopher,  biographer, etc   and may have spoken elsewhere about Peirce and electric switching computers.    Jim Piat  ----- Original Message ----- From: Steven Ericsson Zenith To: Peirce Discussion Forum Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2006 3:30 PM Subject: [peirce-l] Peirce invented the "electric switching computer?" Dear List, There is a very nice and copyright free bio of Peirce from NOAA that I have copied into Panopedia for reference here:    http://www.panopedia.org/index.php/Charles_Sanders_Peirce#NOAA_Giants_of_Science The article is unattributed and makes the following claim, that Peirce was:    " ... first to conceive the design and theory of an electric switching computer" Now, I am not familiar with this claim - can anyone justify it with references?  Better still, can anyone identify the author? With respect, Steven --- Message from peirce-l forum to subscriber [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Message from peirce-l forum to subscriber archive@mail-archive.com