How an 1803 Jacquard Loom Led to Computer Technology

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Joseph Marie-Jacquard developed the mechanical Jacquard loom in France in 1803. This innovative machine used punch cards to control the design of textiles made on the loom. These cards are predecessors to the modern-day computer punch cards and computer technology.

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  • @riittap9121
    @riittap9121 Жыл бұрын

    I'm a first year CS student and as a part of a course assignment I was reading on history of computers. I was blown away by this story and seeing this video gave me the chills.

  • @AlanCanon2222

    @AlanCanon2222

    Жыл бұрын

    I've known the story since I was a kid in the 1980s learning to program on a Teletype with a paper tape punch and reader. I will tell you after 35 years of computing, it NEVER gets old.

  • @RossTrittipo
    @RossTrittipo4 жыл бұрын

    Imagine being Monsieur Jacquard coming into his shop, getting his loom all ready to use, and then it decides to update.

  • @johnjacquard863

    @johnjacquard863

    9 ай бұрын

    😂

  • @mustardca667

    @mustardca667

    9 ай бұрын

    This humour is Top❤

  • @TakuraNyagumbo

    @TakuraNyagumbo

    5 ай бұрын

    😂😂😂

  • @davidfaiheng
    @davidfaiheng6 жыл бұрын

    Wow. I'm so blown away with the working of this machine, which eventually led to the modern world of technology we live in today.

  • @xaenon

    @xaenon

    4 жыл бұрын

    If you want to see the full transition from loom to computer, go check out an old TV show called CONNECTIONS with host James Burke. Episode 4 'Faith in Numbers' of the original show. He demonstrates a tabulating machine that was used to calculate the census in record time, using the principles originally developed with/for the Jacquard loom. The entire original series is definitely worth seeing, if you enjoy learning about the origins of many technologies we take for granted today.

  • @johnjacquard863

    @johnjacquard863

    9 ай бұрын

  • @muraleekrishna.s1901
    @muraleekrishna.s1901 Жыл бұрын

    Its telling us how simple is a computer(0&1),all so COMPLICATED. 🙏

  • @greensleeves8734
    @greensleeves8734 Жыл бұрын

    Hello. I am currently studying Information Technology and after learning about the aformentioned "punch cards" that you referenced in the video I must say I was blown away by your video. Truly amazing how something invented so long ago can still baffle the human mind centuries later! Also you explained everything so masterfully and just wanted to say many thank you very much for the content! As I said truly amazing and beautiful textile work!

  • @empireofgreatjanggeo7888
    @empireofgreatjanggeo78884 жыл бұрын

    Its like printing paper but in loom, wow, old technology is so awesome

  • @jims162
    @jims1622 ай бұрын

    Very cool. Exactly what I was looking to learn more about.

  • @TheHenryFord

    @TheHenryFord

    2 ай бұрын

    Thank you for watching!

  • @duanedonaldson2262
    @duanedonaldson22622 жыл бұрын

    I have seen a very similar loom machine in Japan, very very detailed piece of machinery. It was used to make simple window blinds for smaller windows such as a kitchen window and the blinds were woven with fake thin bamboo rods of different colors to give a nice design pattern. It was made of solid cast iron for the main portions and seemed super heavy, but it was overall very beautiful in action.

  • @scottm4267
    @scottm4267 Жыл бұрын

    Great presentation. Have read about these but couldn't visualize it properly. This was very helpful. Thank you

  • @-kaitharikalam7930
    @-kaitharikalam79302 жыл бұрын

    Good job. Mind blowing work. I love my weaving work at my place....

  • @osamasharaf3407
    @osamasharaf34074 жыл бұрын

    beautiful

  • @williamtrajano7914
    @williamtrajano79142 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for this video. very interesting, . My son is learning coding and is super nice to be able to show this to him

  • @dimitribazos1532
    @dimitribazos15325 ай бұрын

    Fascinating! Virginia Postrel’s “The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World” brought me here. She described this device but, not being able to visualize it, I decided to look it up. It really is a very early computer; neat!

  • @ankitdhami3350
    @ankitdhami33504 жыл бұрын

    Very nice video

  • @anandand3646
    @anandand36463 жыл бұрын

    Mind blowing💥

  • @nirisa8747
    @nirisa87475 жыл бұрын

    Nice machine

  • @pedrorivera9779
    @pedrorivera97793 жыл бұрын

    Thank you, very educative.

  • @KateLate____

    @KateLate____

    2 ай бұрын

    Educational I think is the correct word, no?

  • @nileshacharekar9465
    @nileshacharekar9465 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you

  • @garrettbell8419
    @garrettbell8419 Жыл бұрын

    For some reason, this hole punch programming concept is EXTREMELY fascinating to me lol.

  • @masterchief5437
    @masterchief54374 жыл бұрын

    So where do I insert my USB?

  • @DiamondOre24
    @DiamondOre244 жыл бұрын

    This is basically like a music box I assume, which probably go back further

  • @Kawa-oneechan

    @Kawa-oneechan

    3 жыл бұрын

    You're not wrong.

  • @eliseolopez2790
    @eliseolopez2790 Жыл бұрын

    Amazing astonishing

  • @feefo8315
    @feefo83159 ай бұрын

    Amazing 👏

  • @JoGarciaMov
    @JoGarciaMov2 жыл бұрын

    Speechless

  • @DaviMKim
    @DaviMKim2 жыл бұрын

    Jacquard are TRULLY fancy.

  • @dave4882
    @dave4882 Жыл бұрын

    What do you first year computer students think about it, when you consider that the woven cloth is just another form of memory?

  • @sock2828
    @sock28283 жыл бұрын

    This thing really is turning complete as well. If you wanted to you could, slowly, calculate anything you want.

  • @dragonsmith9012

    @dragonsmith9012

    2 жыл бұрын

    With enough looms working in tandem you could map the human genome, or play a game of Go. 🤔

  • @dragonsmith9012

    @dragonsmith9012

    2 жыл бұрын

    Or make a Pixar Film. 😀

  • @AlanCanon2222

    @AlanCanon2222

    2 жыл бұрын

    It needs two things to do that: a go-to instruction (skip N cards forwards or back) and a conditional instruction to skip the go-to if an internal condition of state is met.

  • @merkymerc
    @merkymerc8 ай бұрын

    ada lovelace and charles babbage used the technology of the jacquard loom to come up with the concepts for the first computer programs all the way back in 1843!

  • @RaviKumar-cl6iy
    @RaviKumar-cl6iy4 жыл бұрын

    computer before computer

  • @tobydavidson8
    @tobydavidson83 жыл бұрын

    very interesting---this initial technology was looming ....look where we are today because of it....know our history!

  • @dave4882
    @dave4882 Жыл бұрын

    There is now a modern production of Charles Babbage's differential engine. What would have been the next step in computing.

  • @masterchief5437
    @masterchief54374 жыл бұрын

    Can it run Doom?

  • @Kawa-oneechan

    @Kawa-oneechan

    3 жыл бұрын

    No, but it can run Loom, the latest masterpiece in interactive storytelling from LucasArts' Brian Moriarty.

  • @TheMarovan

    @TheMarovan

    3 жыл бұрын

    I’m afraid it’s not Turing complete

  • @tasrifhasan739
    @tasrifhasan73914 күн бұрын

    How the holes in the cards are read by the pins? - I don't get this part.... Can anyone answer it.

  • @qwertyasdfg7782
    @qwertyasdfg7782 Жыл бұрын

    SO WEIRD THAT THIS IS THE BIRTH OF COMPUTER... LIFE IS SO MYSTERIOUS..

  • @davidandjessicaclay2333
    @davidandjessicaclay2333 Жыл бұрын

    It is a literally a form of early CNC, using binary.

  • @the_hate_inside1085
    @the_hate_inside10853 жыл бұрын

    I´m scratching my apparatus right now.

  • @factormarketing5652
    @factormarketing56524 жыл бұрын

    wooow

  • @ZTenski
    @ZTenski2 жыл бұрын

    Such a simple mechanical concept but it took another hundred years for Boolean logic to develop properly. It's like the fact that a proper 30fps film existed to record failed flying machines in 1900. I just can't fathom how we were so far ahead in chemical and material engineering but so far behind in information science (and aerodynamics).

  • @lazydave137
    @lazydave1374 жыл бұрын

    Why did they not also automate the shuttle passing through left to right? That would have made it run completely autonomously, or am I missing something?

  • @nikolaiownz

    @nikolaiownz

    4 жыл бұрын

    They did.

  • @Ramog1000

    @Ramog1000

    2 жыл бұрын

    was probably not seen as worth the afford, since its not particularly easy. there can be no connecting piece between the 2 sides, since the threads basically change their position and have to cross that path.

  • @AlanCanon2222

    @AlanCanon2222

    2 жыл бұрын

    They did, this is just a modest example. I bet they made them faster, too, but I can think of some serious limitations just from the inertia of those myriad suspended counterweights.

  • @mmo4754

    @mmo4754

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Ramog1000 It's not difficult to do and there are at least three different ways to do it

  • @astromentro408
    @astromentro4083 жыл бұрын

    wow op

  • @jordanschmidt8572
    @jordanschmidt85724 жыл бұрын

    Principles of Computing Class WYA?

  • @jordanschmidt8572

    @jordanschmidt8572

    4 жыл бұрын

    Wheaty2002 Sup dude haha I go to university of Northwestern in Minnesota it’s pretty good here hah

  • @raviahuja9287
    @raviahuja92873 жыл бұрын

    so basically MS Paint v1.1

  • @eldstgilmorbarboydodellatb4413
    @eldstgilmorbarboydodellatb44134 жыл бұрын

    👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿

  • @randomvideo4453
    @randomvideo44533 жыл бұрын

    I work this work

  • @rafetossked6723
    @rafetossked67233 жыл бұрын

    pog champ

  • @pradumnachaurasia7231
    @pradumnachaurasia72313 жыл бұрын

    THIS LITERALLY BLEW AWAY OH MY GOOD LORD ACNE STUDIOS FALL WINTER S 20 IS SO DAMN SMART OH MY GOOD LORD WOW😷😷😷😷😷😷😷😷😷😷😷😷😷😷😷😷😷

  • @MrBaz007
    @MrBaz0073 жыл бұрын

    YO HEAJ

  • @rodparsons521
    @rodparsons5215 жыл бұрын

    Punch card controlled loom designed first by Jacques de Vaucanson, not Jacquard?

  • @TemplarX2
    @TemplarX24 жыл бұрын

    Jacquard should be considered the inventor the computer not Babbage.

  • @chalichaligha3234

    @chalichaligha3234

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Tadfafty I don't think there were any designs for Turing complete computers(reprogrammable/ true computers), digital or analogue before Babbage. Even Babbage himself did not get the funding to build his Turing complete "Analytical engine".

  • @pulakbaishya9511

    @pulakbaishya9511

    3 жыл бұрын

    How can't card lesing solution give me video

  • @Together.we.grow.better
    @Together.we.grow.better9 ай бұрын

    😕 jacquard taken away design patterns which were used to be woven in nadia of bengal. So much torture given. Here people don't recognise or know about it completely.

  • @animanoir
    @animanoir3 жыл бұрын

    syrobonkers

  • @guitarciaaleon5900
    @guitarciaaleon5900 Жыл бұрын

    An original Silk prayer book must be worth 🛸🎎📖

  • @eliseolopez2790
    @eliseolopez2790 Жыл бұрын

    Saturate me humanity for your benefit

  • @sandrahmonthieuxpelage8915
    @sandrahmonthieuxpelage891511 ай бұрын

    The Word France never mentioned in the comments once ?? Just take it and do not give ANY RECOGNITION to a country presented as stupid and lazy !!

  • @sadafzafar9110
    @sadafzafar91103 жыл бұрын

    poor

  • @sadafzafar9110

    @sadafzafar9110

    3 жыл бұрын

    yes