TY - BOOK ID - 30676264 TI - Jacquard's web : how a hand-loom led to the birth of the information age PY - 2007 SN - 0192805770 1281346543 0191517259 9780191517259 9781281346544 9780192805782 0192805789 9786611346546 6611346546 9780192805775 019150114X PB - Oxford : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Computing KW - Calculators. KW - Jacquard knitting machines. KW - Information technology KW - History. KW - Jacquard, Joseph-Marie, KW - Adding-machines KW - Calculating-machines KW - Computers, Mechanical KW - Desk calculators KW - Mathematical machines (Calculators) KW - Mechanical computers KW - Jacquard, Charles-Marie, KW - Jacquard knitting machines KW - Jacquard, Métiers KW - Jacquard, Joseph Marie KW - Jacquard, Joseph Marie. KW - Jacquard, Métiers KW - Jacquard, Joseph Marie, KW - Knitting machines KW - Mathematical instruments KW - Office equipment and supplies KW - Arithmetic KW - Computers KW - Tabulating machines KW - Ordinateurs KW - Technologie de l'information KW - Histoire UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30676264 AB - 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 ER -