JOSEPH MARIE JACQUARD CALCULATING DEVICE, punched card (1752-1834):

JOSEPH MARIE JACQUARD CALCULATING DEVICE (1752-1834): 

Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752-1834) was a French silk weaver and inventor, who improved on the original punched card design of Jacques de Vaucanson's loom of 1745, to invent the Jacquard loom mechanism in 1804-1805. Jacquard's loom mechanism is controlled by recorded patterns of holes in a string of cards, and allows, what is now known as, the Jacquard weaving of intricate patterns.

    

 

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