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Jacquard's web : how a hand-loom led to the birth of the information age / / by James Essinger



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Autore: Essinger James <1957-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Jacquard's web : how a hand-loom led to the birth of the information age / / by James Essinger Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2007, c2004
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (315 p.)
Disciplina: 004.09
004/.09
509
Soggetto topico: Computing - History
Calculators
Jacquard knitting machines
Information technology - History
Note generali: First published: 2004.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-293) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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
Appendix 2: Ada Lovelace's letter to Charles Babbage, 14 August 1843Appendix 3: How the Jacquard loom worked; Acknowledgements; Notes on sources; Bibliography; Index;
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 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
Titolo autorizzato: Jacquard's web  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-19-150114-X
0-19-280577-0
1-281-34654-3
0-19-151725-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910816565703321
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