Jacquard machine

Thus it became a fresh starting point both for industry and for science.

At the Exposition of National Industry held in Paris during the year 1801, a working model of the Jacquard loom was exhibited, the prototype of those remarkable pieces of mechanism by which the most elaborately figured designs are worked upon fabrics during the process of weaving by means of sets of perforated cardboards.

This was the crowning achievement of the inventions relating to textile fabrics which had rendered the latter half of the eighteenth century so noteworthy in an industrial sense.

It brought artistic designs in articles of common use within the reach of even poor people and has been the means of unconsciously improving the public taste in matters of applied art more rapidly than could have been accomplished by an army of trained artists.

Through every kind of era of information transfer, it talks a lot about the different kinds of mechanical computing.

One of the earliest computers was a loom, the Jacquard loom.

What is that?

So, you know, a loom is like a giant machine for weaving patterns.

Oh.

It's got all of these different fibers on different kind of layers and you kind of, you do the rack, you move the big stick and then you kind of put them together and you push them together.

So in France, this guy Jacquard wanted to figure out a way to start to automate that process.

And so he invented what was called the Jacquard loom, and he made a series of punch cards, paper cards with holes punched in them that you could use to program the loom.

Yeah.

Computing technology is directly related to Jacquard weaving looms and just the concept of the thread going up and down in the work, the on and off, the one and zero.

Yeah.

Direct link.

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Yo, what's the deal, guys? Welcome to another episode of Cheeseman with Duno and Jacquard.

I'm so sorry for my absence.

I've seen what they did to you guys, and I apologize.

Michael Wilson.

A little bit off the board there, but I want to expand my Jacquard tree.

I want to give myself a chance to take Jacoby Brissett as my backup quarterback.

And I've kind of come around on Michael Wilson this offseason a little bit.

What do you

think? I wrote an essay about the Luddites, which were a group of people in England when the first Jacquard loom was built, which is a machine for doing this like textile stuff.

And it took over the job of like four or five people at once.

with one person just moving this machine.

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For more information, or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org Recording by Rosie Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous By Sarah Knowles Bolton Chapter 14 Joseph Marie Jacquard The small world which lives in elegant houses knows little of the great world in dingy apartments with bare walls and empty cupboards.

Those who walk or ride in the sunshine often forget the darkness of the mines or the tiresome treadmill of the factories.

Over a century ago, in Lyon, France, lived a man who desired to make the lives of the toilers brighter and happier.

Joseph Jacquard, the son of a silk weaver who died early, began his young manhood the owner of two looms and a comfortable little home.

He had married Claudine Boichon, the daughter of a goldsmith who expected to give his daughter a marriage portion but was unable from loss of property.

Jacquard loved her just as devotedly, however, as though she had brought him money.

A pretty boy was born into their home, and no family was happier in all France.

Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous by Sarah Knowles Bolton.

Chapter 14, Joseph Marie Jacquard.

The small world which lives in elegant houses knows little of the great world in dingy apartments with bare walls and empty cupboards.

Those who walk or ride in the sunshine often forget the darkness of the mines or the tiresome treadmill of the factories.

Over a century ago, in Lyon, France, lived a man who desired to make the lives of the toilers brighter and happier.

Joseph Jacquard, the son of a silk weaver who died early, began his young manhood the owner of two looms and a comfortable little home.

He had married Claudine Boichon, the daughter of a goldsmith who expected to give his daughter a marriage portion but was unable from loss of property.

Jacquard loved her just as devotedly, however, as though she had brought him money.