Barrett, Lindsay (Author)
Connell, Matthew (Author)
Rutherford Journal: The New Zealand Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
Volume: 1
Pages: Approx. 3000 words
Edition Details: http://www.rutherfordjournal.org/article010103.html (Accessed on August 30, 2009.)
Language: English
Using his own words, drawn in particular from his letters and diaries, the Exhibition focuses on Jevons' Sydney years in order to consider how this young man, in this growing colony, came to formulate the initial conceptions of a number of today's prominent social and scientific discourses, such as economics, statistics, logic and sociology. Perhaps the most exciting artefact to be included in the exhibition is Jevons' original logic machine, or `Logic Piano'. With this device---on loan from the Museum of the History of Science at Oxford---the Exhibition provides a rare opportunity for Australian audiences to view this extraordinary 19th century proto-computer. In essence Jevons' primary legacy in the history of computing is his mechanization of Boolean logic, a key aspect of contemporary computing. It is also reasonable to assert that Jevons was of the key figures in the reformulation of Boolean logic into Boolean algebra, such that it could be employed by Claude Shannon to describe the switching of circuits.
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