Since you might not have heard of the device before, here's a quick rundown. The device attached to a weaving loom and used printed punch cards to "program" patterns into the looms woven fabric.

PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pendleton Woolen Mills headquartered in Portland, Oregon, a globally celebrated American lifestyle brand, has added new jacquard looms to operations at the company’s ...

If you mention punch cards to most people, they’ll think of voting. If you mention it to most older computer people, they’ll think of punching programs for big computers on cards. But punched cards ...

Charles Babbage is widely recognized as a pioneer of the programable computer due to his ingenious designs for steam-driven calculating machines in the 19th century. But Babbage drew inspiration from ...

Before IBM, before punch-card computers, before Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, one of the very first machines that could run something like what we now call a "program" was used to make fabric.

The century-old Jacquard looms lining the factory floor of Scalamandre in Long Island City, Queens, offer as pure an evocation of industrial-era romance as did the Twentieth Century Limited. But ...

The rhythmic clickety-clack of 19th-century hand looms will soon be silenced when what is thought to be the last Jacquard workshop in Europe closes in a few weeks and another traditional art ...

An interactive artwork which links the looms of the Industrial Revolution and the first computers has gone on show. The Reader, created by art collective MidConversation, uses silk squares to "echo" ...

Joseph-Marie Jacquard was in his fifties when he invented the Jacquard machine. In Arthur C Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), the supercomputer HAL prioritises mission objectives over the lives ...