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

302 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history science technology informative slow-paced
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Circuits from silk? Today's technophiles probably have no idea how much today's computer technology owes to the invention of one ingenuous textile manufacturer in nineteenth-century France. Here, master storyteller James Essinger shows through a s...

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