Beth-shemesh
Beth-shemesh , in the Bible. 1 The Egyptian Heliopolis. 2 Town of ancient Palestine, the modern Tel Bet Shemesh (Israel), W of Jerusalem. Excavations there have revealed traces of the Egyptian occupation in the 2d millennium B. C. It also appears as Ir-shemesh. 3 Town of Issachar. 4 Unidentified town of Naphtali.
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Mistaken ancestry: The jacquard and the computer.(Joseph-Marie Jacquard )(Essay)
Magazine article from: Textile; 3/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...card-driven loom introduced by Joseph-Marie Jacquard in the early years of the nineteenth...have been heard to claim that the Jacquard loom is the ancestor of the modern...about the nature of computers. A Jacquard loom is no more like a computer...
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CIRCA 1801: NEW JACQUARD MILL IS HIGH TECH BUT OLD SCHOOL--A THIRDGENERATION WEAVER BUILDS ON AN INTERNATIONAL 'CONSORTIUM' TO FIND NEWOPPORTUNITIES.
Magazine article from: HFN The Weekly Newspaper for the Home Furnishing Network; 10/26/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...spending $26 million to build a new jacquard mill. At the turn of the century...foot state-of-the-art jacquard weaving facility in Connelly Springs...name is doubly historic, since Joseph Marie Jacquard invented his namesake loom in...
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Jacquard's Web: How a Hand Loom Led to the Birth of the Information Age.(Books: A selection of new and notable books of scientific interest)(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Science News; 7/14/2007; 549 words
; JACQUARD'S WEB: How a Hand Loom Led to the...Essinger explains, French inventor Joseph-Marie Jacquard did just that with his amazing machine...entire process. Invented in 1804, the Jacquard loom transformed the silk industry and...
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Jacquard coverlet offers decorative bed of roses.(New in Homes)
Newspaper article from: The Toronto Star (Toronto, Ontario); 7/25/2009; 525 words
; ...a tapestry; it's what's known as a Jacquard coverlet. It was named after Joseph Marie Jacquard, who in 1801 invented a mechanical loom...body is known as four roses and sunbursts. Jacquard coverlets aren't quite as popular as they...
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Jacquard's Web.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 4/1/2005; 502 words
; Jacquard's Web: How a Hand-Loom Led to the...cards. The inventor of this loom was Joseph-Marie Jacquard. Mr Essinger begins his book with a...turns to the use other inventors made of Jacquard's basic ideas including Babbage...
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History of machine rug weaving: from the clack of jacquards to the hum of computers.(Area Rug Sales Training Manual)
Magazine article from: HFN The Weekly Newspaper for the Home Furnishing Network; 10/7/1996; 700+ words
; ...1800, when a Frenchman named Joseph Marie Jacquard perfected a device that used perforated...operated loom which incorporated the Jacquard mechanism. This new loom more...of the basic velvet loom with a Jacquard attachment. It relies on punched...
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NERSC launches Linux Networx supercomputer into production.(National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, contract)
Magazine article from: EDP Weekly's IT Monitor; 8/15/2005; 700+ words
; ...the nation. Named "Jacquard," the Linux Networx...given full access to the Jacquard cluster to thoroughly...production operation. Jacquard had a 99 percent availability...computing. In 1801, Joseph-Marie Jacquard invented the...
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NERSC LAUNCHES LINUX NETWORX SUPERCOMPUTER INTO PRODUCTION.
Newspaper article from: Mainframe Computing; 10/1/2005; 700+ words
; ...the nation. Named "Jacquard," the Linux Networx...given full access to the Jacquard cluster to thoroughly...production operation. Jacquard had a 99 percent availability...computing. In 1801, Joseph-Marie Jacquard invented the...
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Computers & fabric design. (Fabric & Wall Covering) (Market issue) (buyers guide)
Magazine article from: Interior Design; 5/15/1990; ; 700+ words
; ...they are threaded. Joseph-Marie Jacquard invented one...between dobby- and Jacquard-woven fabrics. Dobby...small figures. The jacquard technique can create...fabrics are cheaper than jacquards. A dobby hand loom...samples. There is no jacquard hand loom. ANOTHER...
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Digital textile tools: salvation or ahrimanic (1) seduction?(PERSPECTIVE)(dark force in Anthroposophical philosophy)
Magazine article from: Junctures: The Journal for Thematic Dialogue; 6/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Examples are computer controlled dobby- and Jacquard looms, textile printers, embroidery...the structure of any woven fabric. The Jacquard loom was invented in France by Joseph-Marie Jacquard in 1804. Working with punch cards to regulate...
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Joseph Marie Jacquard
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Joseph Marie Jacquard Innovator of the loom that bears his name, Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752-1834) developed the first loom to weave designs into cloth. It was also recognized as the first machine to employ the punch-card technology, that...
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Jacquard's Loom
Book article from: Computer Sciences
Jacquard's Loom Punched cards, used today...eighteenth century by French inventor Joseph-Marie Jacquard (1752 – 1834) and were used...automate the weaving industry in France. Jacquard was born on July 7, 1752 in a small...
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Social Impact
Book article from: Computer Sciences
...international commerce. In 1801 Joseph-Marie Jacquard (1752 – 1834) invented...of programmed machine, called Jacquard's Loom, in order to automate the weaving of cloth with patterns. Jacquard was motivated by the desire of...
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loom
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...its multiplicity of automatic devices. By 1804, Joseph Marie Jacquard had perfected an attachment applicable to the power...whereby any design might be woven on it. In the modern Jacquard, one repeat of the design is laid out on squared...
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Hollerith, Herman
Book article from: Computer Sciences
...the textile industry more than a century earlier by Joseph-Marie Jacquard (1752 – 1834), who had designed a mechanical loom. In Jacquard's loom, the hooks lifting the warp threads were...
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