Posted: 1/23/2019
Portrait of Joseph Marie Jacquard of Lyon, France, woven in silk by a Jacquard loom using ca. 24,000 punch cards. Truly amazing! Just zoom into this picture and discover the astonishingly fine details. Grateful to a BBC documentary by Jim Al-Khalili about the science of information, who made me aware of this! (see Source 1)
The mechanized, power loom: Another invention not by one human, but by several humans in short order (See Sources 3, 4, and 5). Intellectual property rights need to be reformed.
Reportedly, Charles Babbage was inspired by this portrait and to come up with perforated cards for his analytical machine. As they say, the rest is history … (to paraphrase Paul Harvey)
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