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.
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.
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.
That last time that I was at Greenfield Village I saw this loom in a rather disassembled state and the docent was saying how they were looking for people to help restore it. Sadly, living 2300 miles away, I couldn't volunteer. But I often wondered whether it had been restored to a working condition. I'm thrilled to see that it is up and working!
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!
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!
I’m reading “the armor of light” by Ken Follett which is an historical fiction book about weaving and Follett talks about this machine and what it did to the industry. This video illustrates it and explains it perfectly.
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.
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.
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!
My mother, who is of the baby boomer generation, operated very large computers back in the the day. Before keyboards and so on. The computers were given commands by punch cards. Well, I wasn't there because I wasn't alive yet, but that's what she tells me :)
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?
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.
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.
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).
😕 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.
@@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".
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.
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.
Imagine being Monsieur Jacquard coming into his shop, getting his loom all ready to use, and then it decides to update.
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This humour is Top❤
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lol :)
Love it!
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.
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.
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That last time that I was at Greenfield Village I saw this loom in a rather disassembled state and the docent was saying how they were looking for people to help restore it. Sadly, living 2300 miles away, I couldn't volunteer. But I often wondered whether it had been restored to a working condition. I'm thrilled to see that it is up and working!
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!
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!
Its telling us how simple is a computer(0&1),all so COMPLICATED. 🙏
Its like printing paper but in loom, wow, old technology is so awesome
I’m reading “the armor of light” by Ken Follett which is an historical fiction book about weaving and Follett talks about this machine and what it did to the industry. This video illustrates it and explains it perfectly.
Great presentation. Have read about these but couldn't visualize it properly. This was very helpful. Thank you
Good job.
Mind blowing work.
I love my weaving work at my place....
Thank you for this video. very interesting, . My son is learning coding and is super nice to be able to show this to him
Very cool. Exactly what I was looking to learn more about.
Thank you for watching!
beautiful
This thing really is turning complete as well. If you wanted to you could, slowly, calculate anything you want.
With enough looms working in tandem you could map the human genome, or play a game of Go. 🤔
Or make a Pixar Film. 😀
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.
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.
Thank you for making this video 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗
For some reason, this hole punch programming concept is EXTREMELY fascinating to me lol.
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!
Thank you, very educative.
Educational I think is the correct word, no?
This is basically like a music box I assume, which probably go back further
You're not wrong.
My mother, who is of the baby boomer generation, operated very large computers back in the the day. Before keyboards and so on. The computers were given commands by punch cards. Well, I wasn't there because I wasn't alive yet, but that's what she tells me :)
Very nice video
So where do I insert my USB?
Where the sun don't shine 🤭
Nice machine
Speechless
Can it run Doom?
No, but it can run Loom, the latest masterpiece in interactive storytelling from LucasArts' Brian Moriarty.
I’m afraid it’s not Turing complete
Thank you
What do you first year computer students think about it, when you consider that the woven cloth is just another form of memory?
Finally I found it
Mind blowing💥
Amazing astonishing
There is now a modern production of Charles Babbage's differential engine. What would have been the next step in computing.
Amazing 👏
very interesting---this initial technology was looming ....look where we are today because of it....know our history!
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?
They did.
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.
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.
@@Ramog1000 It's not difficult to do and there are at least three different ways to do it
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).
It is a literally a form of early CNC, using binary.
How the holes in the cards are read by the pins? - I don't get this part....
Can anyone answer it.
computer before computer
Principles of Computing Class WYA?
Wheaty2002 Sup dude haha I go to university of Northwestern in Minnesota it’s pretty good here hah
SO WEIRD THAT THIS IS THE BIRTH OF COMPUTER... LIFE IS SO MYSTERIOUS..
I´m scratching my apparatus right now.
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She said it, at 0:17. Loud and clear. _FRANCE._
THIS LITERALLY BLEW AWAY OH MY GOOD LORD ACNE STUDIOS FALL WINTER S 20 IS SO DAMN SMART OH MY GOOD LORD WOW😷😷😷😷😷😷😷😷😷😷😷😷😷😷😷😷😷
This is more complex than electrical computers 🙃.
so basically MS Paint v1.1
😕 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.
wooow
Jacquard should be considered the inventor the computer not Babbage.
@@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".
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I work this work
Punch card controlled loom designed first by Jacques de Vaucanson, not Jacquard?
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