Jacquard's Loom
In 1801 AD, a French textile weaver, Joseph-Marie Jacquard invented the first automatic loom that could design the different patterns on woven fabric. The loom contained a deck of different set of punched wooden cards which had many holes on them. In the Jacquard's loom, the presence or absence of each hole in the card physically allows a colored thread to pass or stop by this way the punched card controlled the loom that allowed woven patterns to be made in fabrics. These punched cards with holes led the idea of binary number system i.e. 0 and 1.
Punched cards for pattern
Jacquard's Loom
Jacquard's Loom
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