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 ...

[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 ...

Jacquard’s loom was the first to use pasteboard cards ... until they were finally made obsolete by the advent of electronic calculators like the HP 9100.

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 ...

1752: Joseph Marie Jacquard is born in Lyon, France. The weaver and inventor would create the first programmable power loom, revolutionize the weaving industry and lay the foundation for modern ...

PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pendleton Woolen Mills headquartered in Portland, Oregon, a globally celebrated American lifestyle brand, has added new jacquard looms to operations at the company ...

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 term jacquard doesn’t refer to a specific material, print, or pattern, but rather a method of creating raised motifs in fabric by using a particular type of loom—the jacquard loom.

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, which would eventually ...