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[null,null,"Autore",null,"Essinger James <1957->"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"Jacquard's web [[electronic resource] ] : how a hand-loom led to the birth of the information age / / by James Essinger"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2007, c2004"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"0-19-280577-0"]
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[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (315 p.)"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"004.09"]
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[{"$nulls":4},"509"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Computing - History"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Calculators"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Jacquard knitting machines"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Information technology - History"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Electronic books."]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","First published: 2004."]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-293) and index."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"Contents; List of illustrations; 1 The engraving that wasn't; 2 A better mousetrap; 3 The son of a master-weaver; 4 The Emperor's new clothes; 5 From weaving to computing; 6 The Difference Engine; 7 The Analytical Engine; 8 A question of faith and funding; 9 The lady who loved the Jacquard loom; 10 A crisis with the American Census; 11 The first Jacquard looms that wove information; 12 The birth of IBM; 13 The Thomas Watson phenomenon; 14 Howard Aiken dreams of a computer; 15 IBM and the Harvard Mark 1; 16 Weaving at the speed of light; 17 The future; Appendix 1: Charles Babbage's vindication"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Appendix 2: Ada Lovelace's letter to Charles Babbage, 14 August 1843Appendix 3: How the Jacquard loom worked; Acknowledgements; Notes on sources; Bibliography; Index;"]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","Jacquard's Web tells one of the greatest untold stories of science: how a hand loom invented in Napoleonic France led to the birth of the modern computer age. James Essinger, a master storyteller, traces the 200-year evolution of Jacquard's idea from the studios of 18th century weavers, through the Industrial Revolution to the development of hi-tech "]
[{"$nulls":4},"computers and the information age today. - ;Jacquard's Web is the story of some of the most ingenious inventors the world has ever known, a fascinating account of how a hand-loom invented in Napoleonic France led to the development of the modern in"]