Jacquard's Web: How a Hand-Loom Led to the Birth of the Information Age

Michel-Marie Carquillat

James Essinger

2007

Book

Oxford University Press
Paperback, first published 2004
320 pages

The Library

Description

In this popular history, the British writer James Essinger follows the punched card from Joseph-Marie Jacquard’s loom of 1804, whose cards held the instructions for a woven pattern, through Charles Babbage, Herman Hollerith’s tabulator for the 1890 census and the founding of IBM, to the World Wide Web. Babbage chose Jacquard’s cards to control his Analytical Engine, and he bought a portrait of Jacquard woven in silk. This collection has a copy of that portrait, which Michel-Marie Carquillat wove in Lyon in 1839 from about 24,000 cards.

Visite de Mgr le duc d'Aumale à la Croix-Rousse by Michel-Marie Carquillat, 1844

Visite de Mgr le duc d'Aumale à la Croix-Rousse Michel-Marie Carquillat1844 Textile

À la mémoire de J. M. Jacquard by Michel-Marie Carquillat, 1839

À la mémoire de J. M. Jacquard Michel-Marie Carquillat1839 Textile

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La sfida elettronica: realtà e prospettive dell'uso del computer in architettura by Kerry Strand, 1969

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Computer Images: State of the Art by Joseph Deken, 1983

Computer Images: State of the Art Joseph Deken1983 Book

Impulse Computerkunst: Graphik – Plastik – Musik – Film by Herbert W. Franke, 1970

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