The era of
modern logic and
group theory was given birth by the mind of brilliant mathematician
Winnifred Hall, who was born in the Province of Georgia in the beginning of the 19th century. While her work was initially obscure in the chaos of the Slaver Uprising, in the relative peace of the founding of the Dominion of Southern America, her work was popularized throughout the British Empire and then all of Europe. With the realization that Hallean logic could be used to define the workings of logic engines, knowledge of it spread from the rarefied halls of mathematical academia. Those who hoped to develop
mechanical logic engines hoped to follow in the footsteps of the mechanical calculator, but making parts to the demanding specifications needed for the logic engine especially given the complexities of such machines made the attempts limited in their success and ability to be widely employed.
However, in the early 20th century with the development of the
vacuum pipe a new generation of
electronic logic engines. Still bulky, energy hungry, and tending to overheating, nonetheless they were able to outperform any of their mechanical predecessors. One of the pioneers of the electronic age of logic was
Samuel Oomen, whose family came originally from Southwestern India but emigrated to the Dominion of Southern America. In his youth Samuel joined the Southron Navy but shortly thereafter was accepted to Oxford where he became an innovator in theoretical and practical logic, including the development of the
Universal Logic Engine (ULE) concept.
Of course, the development of the
crystal tripole made practical the development of a range of ever more compact electronic logic engines and other than in technical and academic works the more popular term became by the mid to late 20th century the
logicine.