Jacquard's Web: How a Hand-Loom Led to the Birth of the Information Age - Brossura

Essinger, James

 
9780192805782: Jacquard's Web: How a Hand-Loom Led to the Birth of the Information Age
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ISBN 10: 0192805789 ISBN 13: 9780192805782
Casa editrice: Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 2007

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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 researched historical connections how the Jacquard loom kick-started a process of scientific evolution which would lead directly to the development of the modern computer.Jacquard's 1804 invention, a loom which used punch cards with stored instructions for weaving different patterns and designs, enabled the master silk-weavers of Lyons to weave fabrics 25 times faster than the competition. Here, Essinger reveals the plethora of extraordinary links between that innovation in weaving and today's computer age, introducing us to the intriguing and colorful people who paved the way. The book concludes by bringing the story completely up-to-date with the latest developments in the World Wide Web and the fascinating phenomenon of artificial intelligence.Attractively illustrated and compellingly narrated, Jacquard's Web presents an eye-opening and scarcely known history that will prove fascinating to readers of popular science, especially those interested in the history of science, technology, and computing, as well as professional scientists, historians, and students.

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Informazioni sull?autore

James Essinger is a writer with a particluar interest in the history of ideas that have had a practical impact on the modern world. He is currently working on a novel about Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace and on a popular history of the written word.

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Editore
Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
Data di pubblicazione
2007
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0192805789
ISBN 13 
9780192805782
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
318
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
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9780192805775: Jacquard's Web: How a hand-loom led to the birth of the information age

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0192805770 ISBN 13:  9780192805775
Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 2005
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