logic-piano

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Capture: Verify the dates and details of Jevons's Logic Piano — built 1869, exhibited before the Royal Society 1870 — against a primary or scholarly source

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-10 · jevons, logic-piano, logic-machines, history-of-computing, victorian-science
Jevons's own 1870 paper dates the Logic Piano's completion to before 16 October 1869 and its Royal Society reading to 20 January 1870

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-10 · jevons, logic-piano, logic-machines, history-of-computing, victorian-science
The Oxford History of Science Museum's own exhibition page independently dates Jevons's surviving Logic Machine to 1869

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-10 · jevons, logic-piano, logic-machines, history-of-computing, victorian-science
William Stanley Jevons built the 'Logic Piano' (1869), a mechanical machine that performed logical inference, exhibited before the Royal Society in 1870

claim budding Tier 4 2026-07-12 · history-of-computing, logic-machines, jevons, victorian-science, inference
Verify the dates and details of Jevons's Logic Piano — built 1869, exhibited before the Royal Society 1870 — against a primary or scholarly source

question answered 2026-07-12 · verification, jevons, logic-machines, history-of-computing, logic-piano