A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits

by Claude Elwood Shannon

$95,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

New York: American Institute of Electrical Engineers AIEE , 1938. First edition, in the form Shannon’s own department circulated three months before the bound journal reached its subscribers, of the paper that made the design of switching circuits a deductive science. In the summer of 1937 Claude Shannon, a twenty-one-year-old research assistant at MIT, was running Vannevar Bush’s differential analyser — a

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