[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osCPWMyJOj8&w=470] The Jacquard loom, invented in the early 1800s, used punched cards to manufacture relatively complex ...

An automated loom that transformed the 19th century textile industry and became the inspiration for future data processing machines. Developed by the French silk-weaver, Joseph-Marie Jacquard ...

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A new fiber art exhibition will debut at Detroit’s The Shepherd on Saturday, Jan. 25, with work from dozens of artists from ...

But that deft narrative exploration is exactly what’s on offer at Warp & Weft: Technologies within Textiles, an exhibit ...

For this reason, "Jacquard designs can be incredibly complex, with the planning and the loom work itself controlled by computerized systems [and historically via punch cards] that lift up certain ...

The story for permanent storage for computers begins with the Jacquard loom. Hackaday commenters that are less clever than a Wikipedia article may argue that it was the earlier Bouchon and de ...

Punch cards have been used to control the operation of machinery from the early nineteenth century, when the Frenchman Joseph Marie Jacquard patented an attachment to a loom in which a series of ...

By choosing to focus only on female pioneers in art and technology, ‘Radical Software’ at Mudam Luxembourg misses the bigger ...

One well-known machine from this period is the Jacquard loom, a weaving machine that reads holes punched in cards which tell the loom to weave different patterns. Of course, many early computers ...

Punch cards have been used to control the operation of machinery from the early nineteenth century, when the Frenchman Joseph Marie Jacquard patented an attachment to a loom in which a series of ...