[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osCPWMyJOj8&w=470] The Jacquard loom, invented in the early 1800s, used punched cards to manufacture relatively complex ...

If you mention punch cards to most people, they’ll think of voting. If you mention it to most older computer people, they’ll think of punching programs for big computers on cards. But punched cards ...

The Reader, created by art collective MidConversation, uses silk squares to "echo" the movement of Jacquard looms and chimes to represent binary code. The looms were controlled by binary punch cards ...

Before IBM, before punch-card computers, before Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, one of the very first machines that could run something like what we now call a "program" was used to make fabric.

1752: Joseph Marie Jacquard is born in Lyon, France. The weaver and inventor would create the first programmable power loom, revolutionize the weaving industry and lay the foundation for modern data ...

The artwork allows people to "hear the sound of binary code" An interactive artwork which links the looms of the Industrial Revolution and the first computers has gone on show. The Reader, created by ...

An interactive artwork which links the looms of the Industrial Revolution and the first computers has gone on show. The Reader, created by art collective MidConversation, uses silk squares to "echo" ...

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