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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.
; ...million to build a new jacquard mill. At the turn of...000-square-foot state-of-the-art jacquard weaving facility in...doubly historic, since Joseph Marie Jacquard invented his namesake loom in 1801. Like Jacquard, Schneider, chief executive...a new generation of jacquard ...
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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)
; JACQUARD'S WEB: How a Hand Loom Led to...Essinger explains, French inventor Joseph-Marie Jacquard did just that with his amazing...process. Invented in 1804, the Jacquard loom transformed the silk industry...Babbage recognized the potential of Jacquard's idea and put it to use in a...
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History of machine rug weaving: from the clack of jacquards to the hum of computers.(Area Rug Sales Training Manual)
; ...around 1800, when a Frenchman named Joseph Marie Jacquard perfected a device that used perforated...power-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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Computers & weaving.
; ...shows the first programmable device was credited to Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752-1834) of France for inventing the automatic pattern loom. This Jacquard Loom used a series of cards with holes punched in...
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The marriage of inventions; Technologies, like people, form relationships to one another. In the future, new unions will produce surprising offspring.
; [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It is eighteenth-century France; Joseph Marie-Jacquard has just invented a mechanical loom that uses punch...events affecting many millions more for years to come. Jacquard and Wright never imagined their inventions would cause...
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Anniversaries
; Births: Joseph-Marie Jacquard, silk-weaver and inventor, 1752; Gustav Mahler, composer, 1860; Marc Chagall, painter and designer, 1887; George Cukor, film director...
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UNRAVELING AN INNOVATION'S HUMBLE BEGINNING
; ...of a key insight by French weaver Joseph-Marie Jacquard that punch cards could be used to...innovation. His story starts with Jacquard, an unremarkable Frenchman until...on the history and evolution of Jacquard's simple principle as it has evolved...can be traced directly back to the ...
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TIME OUT: Make a Date.(Features)
; ...Ireland is established under the Act of Union. 2. Thomas Jefferson succeeds John Adams as president of the USA. 3. Joseph-Marie Jacquard develops a loom which creates patterns using punched paper cards. Was it? a) 1801' b) 1811' c) 1821' d) 1831...
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Brain Gain: Make a Date.(Features)
; ...Ireland is established under the Act of Union. 2. Thomas Jefferson succeeds John Adams as president of the USA. 3. Joseph-Marie Jacquard develops a loom which creates patterns using punched paper cards. Was it? a) 1801' b) 1811' c) 1821' d) 1831...
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A lighthouse oflearning in ignorant age
; ...built the first steam-powered locomotive, Italian Alessandra Volta had invented the first battery and Frenchman Joseph- Marie Jacquard had programmed the first automatic loom - all in the space of a mere four years. The age of the machine had arrived...
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