In the years before Jacquard invented his loom head, the best way to do this was by hand. The Jacquard loom, though, could process information about which of those strings should be lifted up and ...

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 invented. In the early 19th Century ...

People running up the Rocky steps at the Philadelphia Museum of Art now face something new at the top – a wall of 10 cast-iron figures planted on the top step. A visitor to the Philadelphia Museum of ...

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 ...

The Reader was created by artists Laura Jane Blake, Elizabeth Atherton and Lucy Crowder, who said it drew on "details of the Jacquard loom to bring it to life in a playful way". They added ...

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 ...