Jacquards' Web by Essinger, James -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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List of illustrations Jacquard's Web: How a Hand-loom Led to the Birth of the Information Age Contents 1 The engraving that wasn’t 2 A better mousetrap 3 The son of a master-weaver 4 The Emperor’s new clothes 5 From weaving to computing 6 The Difference Engine 7 The Analytical Engine 8 A question of faith and funding 9 The lady who loved the Jacquard loom 10 A crisis with the American Census 11 The first Jacquard looms that wove information 12 The birth of IBM 13 The Thomas Watson phenomenon 14 Howard Aiken dreams of a computer 15 IBM and the Harvard Mark 1 16 Weaving at the speed of light 17 The future Appendix 1 Charles Babbage’s vindication Appendix 2 Ada Lovelace’s letter to Charles Babbage, 14 August 1843 Appendix 3 How the Jacquard loom worked Acknowledgements Notes on sources Bibliography Index

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