Jacquard's Web: How a Hand-Loom Led to the Birth of the Information Age by James Essinger
Jacquard's Web: How a Hand-Loom Led to the Birth of the Information Age

James Essinger

Jacquard's Web: How a Hand-Loom Led to the Birth of the Information Age

James Essinger

302 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history science technology informative slow-paced
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In Jacquard's Web, James Essinger tells the story of some of the most brilliant inventors the world has ever known, in this fascinating account of how a hand-loom invented in Napoleonic France led to the development of the modern information age. ...

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