1800

The Jacquard machine.

1801

Joseph Marie Jacquard played an important role in the development of the earliest programmable loom, known today as the "Jacquard Loom. The Jacquard Loom uses a chain of punch cards to instruct the loom on how to make intricate textiles. For example, a loom could have hundreds of cards with holes in them that correspond to hooks that can be raised or lowered to make a textile brocade. Early computers would use similar punch cards (Charles Babbage would use perforated cards in his analytical engine).

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