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2 unusual facts about Joseph Marie Jacquard


Joseph Marie Jacquard

British economist Sir John Bowring met Jacquard, who told Bowring that at one time he had been a maker of straw hats.

Charles Babbage owned one of these portraits; it inspired him in using perforated cards in his analytical engine.


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The encoding of data by discrete bits was used in the punched cards invented by Basile Bouchon and Jean-Baptiste Falcon (1732), developed by Joseph Marie Jacquard (1804), and later adopted by Semen Korsakov, Charles Babbage, Hermann Hollerith, and early computer manufacturers like IBM.


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