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Author Essinger, James, 1957-

Title Jacquard's web : how a hand-loom led to the birth of the information age / by James Essinger.

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY JACQUARD    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  004.09 ESSINGER    Check Shelf
Description xi, 302 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 20 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-293) and index.
Contents The engraving that wasn't -- A better mousetrap -- The son of a master-weaver -- The Emperor's new clothes -- From weaving to computing -- The difference engine -- The analytical engine -- A question of faith and funding -- The lady who loved the Jacquard loom -- A crisis with the American census -- The first Jacquard looms that wove information -- The birth of IBM -- The Thomas Watson phenomenon -- Howard Aiken dreams of a computer -- IBM and the Harvard Mark I -- Weaving at the speed of light -- The future.
Subject Computers -- History.
Jacquard knitting machines -- History.
Information technology -- History.
ISBN 0192805770
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