Jacquard's Web How a Hand-Loom Led to the Birth of the Information Age

Name: Jacquard's Web How a Hand-Loom Led to the Birth of the Information Age
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ISBN: 9780192805782

ISBN-10: 0192805789

ISBN-13: 9780192805782

Edition: 2006

Authors: James Essinger

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Jacquard's Web is the story of some of the most ingenious inventors the world has ever known, a fascinating account of how a hand-loom invented in Napoleonic France led to the development of the modern information age. James Essinger, a master story-teller, shows through a series of remarkable and meticulously researched historical connections (spanning two centuries and never investigated before) that the Jacquard loom kick-started a process of scientific evolution whichwould lead directly to the development of the modern computer.The invention of Jacquard's loom in 1804 enabled the master silk-weavers of Lyons to weave fabrics 25 times faster than had previously been possible. The device…

Book details

List price: $26.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/21/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.72" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.506
Language: English



List of illustrations



The engraving that wasn't



A better mousetrap



The son of a master-weaver



The Emperor's new clothes



From weaving to computing



The Difference Engine



The Analytical Engine



A question of faith and funding



The lady who loved the Jacquard loom



A crisis with the American Census



The first Jacquard looms that wove information



The birth of IBM



The Thomas Watson phenomenon



Howard Aiken dreams of a computer



IBM and the Harvard Mark 1



Weaving at the speed of light



The future



Charles Babbage's vindication



Ada Lovelace's letter to Charles Babbage, 14 August 1843



How the Jacquard loom worked


Acknowledgements


Notes on sources


Bibliography


Index