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Joseph Marie Jacquard, French weaver and inventor, invented the Jacquard loom (born 1752)
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Joseph Marie Jacquard
French weaver, merchant, and inventor (1752–1834)
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 development of other programmable machines, such as an early version of digital…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Jacquard machine
Control device attached to weaving looms
The Jacquard machine is a device fitted to a loom that simplifies the process of manufacturing textiles with such complex patterns as brocade, damask and matelassé. The resulting ensemble of the loom and Jacquard machine is then called a Jacquard loom. The machine was patented…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)