victorian-science

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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
In The Coal Question (1865), William Stanley Jevons argued that improving energy efficiency increases rather than decreases total energy use — the effect now called the Jevons paradox

claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-12 · economics, energy, jevons, jevons-paradox, rebound-effect
William Stanley Jevons is a double bridge from Victorian science to modern AI: the same polymath built an early mechanical logic machine and coined the efficiency-rebound paradox now framing AI's energy appetite

observation seedling Tier 4 2026-07-12 · cross-domain-bridge, jevons, history-of-computing, logic-machines, ai-energy
William Stanley Jevons is a double bridge from Victorian logic to modern AI — he built an early logic machine AND coined the efficiency paradox now framing AI's energy appetite

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-11 · history-of-computing, logic-machines, jevons, economics, ai-energy