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

[Steven Ericsson Zenith]

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 archive@mail-archive.com