Jacquard's Web: How a Hand-Loom Led to the Birth of the Information Age - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780192805782ISBN-10:192805789UPC:9780192805782Book Category:Technology & Engineering, ComputersBook Subcategory:History, Inventions, Computer ScienceSize:7.64 x 5.14 x 0.76 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SC2H47C7F9
Jacquard's Web: How a Hand-Loom Led to the Birth of the Information Age
Circuits from silk? Today's technophiles probably have no idea how much today's computer technology owes to the invention of one ingenuous textile manufacturer in nineteenth-century France. Here, master storyteller James Essinger shows through a series of remarkable and meticulously researched historical connections how the Jacquard loom kick-started a process of scientific evolution which would...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780192805782ISBN-10:192805789UPC:9780192805782Book Category:Technology & Engineering, ComputersBook Subcategory:History, Inventions, Computer ScienceSize:7.64 x 5.14 x 0.76 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SC2H47C7F9
James Essinger is a writer with a particular interest in the history of ideas that have had a practical impact on the modern world. He is currently working on a novel about Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace and on a popular history of the written word.
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