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Jacquard, Joseph Marie (1752–1834)


Joseph Jacquard
French inventor of the Jacquard loom (completed 1801), which could weave complex patterns according to instructions coded on punched cards (a technique adopted by Charles Babbage for his calculator and used for computers into the 1980s). Modern looms are still based on Jacquard's principles.


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