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Joseph Marie Jacquard
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Joseph Marie Charles dit Jacquard was a French weaver and merchant. He played an important role in the development of the earliest programmable loom, which in turn played an important role in the deve
Joseph Marie Jacquard
Joseph Marie Jacquard
Jacquard loom on display in the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester, England
Jacquard loom on display in the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester, England
The Most Famous Image in the Early History of Computing This portrait of Jacquard was woven in silk on a Jacquard loom and required 24,000 punched car
The Most Famous Image in the Early History of Computing This portrait of Jacquard was woven in silk on a Jacquard loom and required 24,000 punched cards to create (1839). It was only produced to order. One of these portraits in the possession of Charles Babbage inspired him in using perforated cards in his Analytical Engine. It is in the collection of the Science Museum in London, England.
Punched card
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A punched card is a stiff paper-based medium used to store digital information via the presence or absence of holes in predefined positions. Developed over the 19th to 20th centuries, punched cards we
Joseph Marie Jacquard
…there were 11,000 Jacquard looms in use in France. This claim has been challenged: Initially few Jacquard looms were sold because of problems with the punched card mechanism. Only after 1815 — once Jean Antoine Breton had solved the problems with the punched card mechanism — did sales of looms increase. Jacquard…
A set of two 12-row/80-column punched cards (one blank, one used) from the mid-twentieth century
A set of two 12-row/80-column punched cards (one blank, one used) from the mid-twentieth century
Carpet loom with Jacquard apparatus by Carl Engel, around 1860. The chain feed is on the left.
Carpet loom with Jacquard apparatus by Carl Engel, around 1860. The chain feed is on the left.
A worker changing Jacquard cards in a lace machine, September 1918. The pattern of the lace is dictated by the holes in the cards.
A worker changing Jacquard cards in a lace machine, September 1918. The pattern of the lace is dictated by the holes in the cards.
Woman operating the card puncher, c. 1940
Woman operating the card puncher, c. 1940