See Hollerith machine and punch card. The Jacquard Loom Threads in cloth run lengthwise and crosswise (the "warp" and "woof"). In each pass of a shuttle, ...

Before the invention of the jacquard loom (sometimes called the jacquard machine or jacquard mechanism) around 1800, the European method of weaving patterns and colors into fabrics (to create what ...

The Jacquard loom was famously the first machine to use cards like this, and it is no secret that they were the inspiration for Hollerith’s use of cards in the census, ...

Jacquard's machine was capable of programming patterns with such precision, it was even used in 1886 to create a prayer book woven entirely in silk, using black and gray thread. Only around 50 ...

The Jacquard loom, though, could process information about which of those strings should be lifted up and in what order. That information was stored in punch cards—often 2,000 or more strung ...

The revolutionary Jacquard loom was the first to use special punch-hole cards using a binary code to make fabric patterns using a steering mechanism on the top of the loom. “The machine on top of the ...

For a real treat, here’s a machine that will calculate all primes under 1000 in 30 years. Posted in Misc Hacks Tagged jacquard , jacquard loom , mechanical , mechanical computer Post navigation ...

Patented in 1804, an expertly operated Jacquard loom could produce two feet of brocade a day, a feat impressive enough, given France’s dependence on textile exports, to merit the device a visit ...

The computers we use today have woolly beginnings. If it wasn't for the invention of the Jacquard loom, the modern-day computer may have never have been born.