How an 1803 Jacquard Loom Led to Computer Technology

This is basically like a music box I assume, which probably go back further

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Very nice video

Its like printing paper but in loom, wow, old technology is so awesome

Imagine being Monsieur Jacquard coming into his shop, getting his loom all ready to use, and then it decides to update.

Jacquard should be considered the inventor the computer not Babbage.

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Mind blowing💥

I´m scratching my apparatus right now.

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Thank you, very educative.

so basically MS Paint v1.1

very interesting---this initial technology was looming ....look where we are today because of it....know our history!

This thing really is turning complete as well. If you wanted to you could, slowly, calculate anything you want.

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Speechless

Good job.

Mind blowing work.

I love my weaving work at my place....

Thank you for this video. very interesting, . My son is learning coding and is super nice to be able to show this to him

I have seen a very similar loom machine in Japan, very very detailed piece of machinery. It was used to make simple window blinds for smaller windows such as a kitchen window and the blinds were woven with fake thin bamboo rods of different colors to give a nice design pattern. It was made of solid cast iron for the main portions and seemed super heavy, but it was overall very beautiful in action.

Such a simple mechanical concept but it took another hundred years for Boolean logic to develop properly. It's like the fact that a proper 30fps film existed to record failed flying machines in 1900. I just can't fathom how we were so far ahead in chemical and material engineering but so far behind in information science (and aerodynamics).

Its telling us how simple is a computer(0&1),all so COMPLICATED. 🙏

Hello. I am currently studying Information Technology and after learning about the aformentioned "punch cards" that you referenced in the video I must say I was blown away by your video. Truly amazing how something invented so long ago can still baffle the human mind centuries later! Also you explained everything so masterfully and just wanted to say many thank you very much for the content! As I said truly amazing and beautiful textile work!

I'm a first year CS student and as a part of a course assignment I was reading on history of computers. I was blown away by this story and seeing this video gave me the chills.

Great presentation. Have read about these but couldn't visualize it properly. This was very helpful. Thank you

SO WEIRD THAT THIS IS THE BIRTH OF COMPUTER... LIFE IS SO MYSTERIOUS..

Thank you

For some reason, this hole punch programming concept is EXTREMELY fascinating to me lol.

What do you first year computer students think about it, when you consider that the woven cloth is just another form of memory?

There is now a modern production of Charles Babbage's differential engine. What would have been the next step in computing.

It is a literally a form of early CNC, using binary.

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The Word France never mentioned in the comments once ?? Just take it and do not give ANY RECOGNITION to a country presented as stupid and lazy !!

Amazing 👏

😕 jacquard taken away design patterns which were used to be woven in nadia of bengal. So much torture given. Here people don't recognise or know about it completely.

ada lovelace and charles babbage used the technology of the jacquard loom to come up with the concepts for the first computer programs all the way back in 1843!

Fascinating! Virginia Postrel’s “The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World” brought me here. She described this device but, not being able to visualize it, I decided to look it up. It really is a very early computer; neat!

Very cool. Exactly what I was looking to learn more about.

How the holes in the cards are read by the pins? - I don't get this part....
Can anyone answer it.

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This is more complex than electrical computers 🙃.

Finally I found it

That last time that I was at Greenfield Village I saw this loom in a rather disassembled state and the docent was saying how they were looking for people to help restore it. Sadly, living 2300 miles away, I couldn't volunteer. But I often wondered whether it had been restored to a working condition. I'm thrilled to see that it is up and working!