Joseph Marie Jacquard

Joseph Marie Jacquard

Support for Thesis

The Solid State Drive is going to overtake the hard disk drive in terms of speed, capacity, price, durability, size, and lifespan within the near future.

The punched cards that Jacquard used to store the information regarding textile weaving is an example of a obsolete form of data storage, and has since been replaced with many other methods of creating and storing data for future use and reuse, like how vinyl storage was replaced by magnetic tape, which was replaced by compact disks, which was replaced by electronic methods of downloading and storing music. The HDD will have the same fate as punched cards and the tape deck.

Biography

Personal Driving Forces

Annotated Bibliography

Jacquard's fathers was a master weaver of Lyon, so he had a lot of exposure to this sort of work, and when his father died, he inherited his estate and all of his looms and workshops, and in 1778, he listed his occupations as a master weaver and silk merchant, even though he was not registered as a silk merchant.

The invention of the Jacquard loom was right after Napoleon Bonaparte had taken control of France, and he decided to stimulate the French textile industry, so he placed large orders for fabric, so the demand for a more efficient way to process thread was there to reward anybody who could do so.

Born 7 July 1752 in Lyon, France

Died 7 August 1834 (aged 82)

in Lyon France

Lived here his entire life.

Father: Jean Charles dit Jacquard

Mother: Antoinette Rive

Spouse: Claudine Boichon

• Davis, Martin, and Davis, Virginia. Textile: The Journal of Cloth & Culture. Berg Publishers Ltd. 2005.
• About how the Jacquard loom affected labor.
• Deitel, Harvey M., and Barbara Deitel. Computers and Data Processing. Orlando: Academic Press, 1985.
• About how the Jacquard loom affected weaving.
• Essinger, James. Jacquard's Web: How a Hand-Loom Led to the Birth of the Information Age. Technology and Culture, Jan 2006.
• About how the Jacquard loom affected the creation of computers.
• Karwatka, Dennis. Joseph Marie Jacquard and the Punched Card Textile Loom. Trustees of the Science Museum, 1996.
• About Jacquard himself
• Peterson, Tommy. Weaving Preceded the Web. Computerworld, 2005.
• About how the Jacquard loom worked

Major Contributions

Jacquard's major contribution to the world was the aptly named Jacquard loom. The main achievement that the Jacquard loom used a series of punch cards to "pre-make" a pattern to be used for fabric and textile weaving. It began to be sold in 1805, and by 1812, there were 11,000 Jacquard looms operating.

Major Contributions Cont.

What made the Jacquard loom so important was that it was the first machine to control a sequence of operations, so that they could be used again at a later time, as well as saving labor costs from having someone do all of this manually. The only manual labor required was the time it took to create and install the punched cards to the loom. It is important to note that the Jacquard loom is just a name given to the entire loom, when all that Jacquard did was create an attachment for a regular loom. The ability to change the pattern of the loom's weave by changing cards was an important precursor the development of computer programming, even though the computer hasn't been invented.