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Jacquard's Web: How a Hand-Loom Led to the Birt... 0192805789 Book Cover

Jacquard's Web: How a Hand-Loom Led to the Birt...

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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 series of remarkable and meticulously...

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Jacquard's Web: How a Hand-Loom Led to the Birt... 0192805770 Book Cover

Jacquard's Web: How a Hand-Loom Led to the Birt...

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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.
Essinger, a master story-teller,...

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