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Essinger, James, 1957-
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Computers -- History.
Jacquard knitting machines -- History.
Information technology -- History.
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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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Essinger, James, 1957-
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Subjects
Computers -- History.
Jacquard knitting machines -- History.
Information technology -- History.
ISBN:
0192805770 :
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xi, 302 p. : ill., ports. ; 20 cm.
Contents:
The engraving that wasn't -- A better mousetrap -- The son of a master-weaver -- The Emperor's new clothes -- From weaving to computing -- The difference engine -- The analytical engine -- A question of faith and funding -- The lady who loved the Jacquard loom -- A crisis with the American census -- The first Jacquard looms that wove information -- The birth of IBM -- The Thomas Watson phenomenon -- Howard Aiken dreams of a computer -- IBM and the Harvard Mark I -- Weaving at the speed of light -- The future.
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