Who is Joseph Jacquard
Joseph Marie Charles nicknamed Jacquard (7 July 1752–7 August 1834) was a straw hat maker before becoming a French silk weaver and inventor, who improved on the original punched card design of Jacques de Vaucanson's loom of 1745, to invent the Jacquard loom mechanism in 1804-1805. Jacquard's loom mechanism is controlled by recorded patterns of holes in a string of cards, and allows what is now known as the Jacquard weaving of intricate patterns.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
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