Jacquard loom with punched cards
Telar de Jacquard con tarjetas perforadas
- Date
- 1804 · confidence high
- Place
- Lyon, France
- Credited to
- Joseph-Marie Jacquard
- People
- 👤 Joseph Marie Jacquard1752–1834
- Field
- Tools
What it is
A mechanism controlling the warp threads by means of a chain of punched cards, allowing complex patterns to be woven without a 'draw-boy'. It was the first machine programmable by an interchangeable data medium.
Jacquard combined and perfected mechanisms devised by Basile Bouchon, Jean-Baptiste Falcon and Jacques de Vaucanson.
What it led to
- The automation of silk and damask weaving
- The canut revolts in Lyon (1831, 1834)
- The concept of a stored program: Babbage, Hollerith and IBM
- Mass production of patterned fabrics
Built on
- Laoguanshan multi-shaft pattern loomc. 150 BCE
- Bouchon's drawloom with perforated paper tape1725
- Power loom1785
- Bouchon's (1725), Falcon's (1728) and Vaucanson's (1745) looms
Made possible
- Difference engine and analytical engine1822-1837
- Hollerith punched card1884–1890
- Babbage's Analytical Engine
- Hollerith tabulating machine (1890)
- Player piano