biography
| name: |
Jacquard, Joseph Marie
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pronunciation:
[zhakah(r)]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1752–1834)
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| biography:
| Silk-weaver, born in Lyon, SC France. His invention (1801–8) of the Jacquard loom, controlled by punched cards, enabled an ordinary workman to produce the most beautiful patterns in a style previously accomplished only with patience, skill, and labour. But though Napoleon rewarded him with a small pension and the Légion d'Honneur, the silk weavers were long opposed to his machine. At his death his machine was in almost universal use, and his punched card system was adopted in the 20th-c as a control and data input system for many office machines and early digital computers. |
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