Jacquard loom
<history> /zhah-kar'/ A mechanical loom, invented by Joseph-Marie
Jacquard in 1801, which used the holes punched in pasteboard punch cards (which
see) to control the weaving of patterns in fabric. It was the first machine to
use punch cards, although it did no computation based on them.
http://www.history.rochester.edu/steam/hollerith/loom.htm.
(1998-10-19)
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