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Joseph-Marie Jacquard

Joseph-Marie Jacquard. By Antoine Cox. Bio Joseph-Marie Charles dit Jacquard Born: July 7, 1752 Lyon, France Died: August 7, 1834 Father: Jean Charles dit Jacquard Mother: Antoinette Rive Was the 1 of 9 children Was a weaver and merchant. Mother died in 1762 Father died in 1772

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Joseph-Marie Jacquard

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  1. Joseph-Marie Jacquard By Antoine Cox

  2. Bio • Joseph-Marie Charles dit Jacquard • Born: July 7, 1752 • Lyon, France • Died: August 7, 1834 • Father: Jean Charles dit Jacquard • Mother: Antoinette Rive • Was the 1 of 9 children • Was a weaver and merchant

  3. Mother died in 1762 • Father died in 1772 • Inherited father’s house, looms, and workshop. • 1778 he listed his occupations as master weaver and silk merchant. Also known as type-founder • July 26, 1778 he married Claudine Boichon. • April 19, 1779 they had their only child, a son, Jean Marie.

  4. Jacquard Loom • 1801, the Jacquard loom was invented by Jacquard. • A mechanical loom with a process of manufacturing textiles with complex patterns: brocade, damask, and matelasse. • Multiple rows of holes punched on each card and the many cards the compose the design of the textile are strung together in order. • Base on inventions by Frenchmen BalsileBouchon, Jean-Baptisle Falcon, and Jacques Vaucanson.

  5. Jacquard Loom

  6. Importance of Jacquard loom • First machine that used punched cardsto control a sequence of operations • No computations, but an important to step in the history of computing software • The ability to change the pattern of the loom’s weave by simply changing cards was an important conceptual precursor to the development of computer program • Charles Babbage planned to used cards to store programs in his Analytical engine.

  7. Resource • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_loom

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