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 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    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 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      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
    @RossTrittipo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +117

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

  • @davidfaiheng
    @davidfaiheng 6 ปีที่แล้ว +68

    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 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      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 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

  • @muraleekrishna.s1901
    @muraleekrishna.s1901 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

  • @greensleeves8734
    @greensleeves8734 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    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
    @empireofgreatjanggeo7888 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

  • @duanedonaldson2262
    @duanedonaldson2262 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    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.

  • @user-de2pm7vr7y
    @user-de2pm7vr7y 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thank you for making this video 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗

  • @scottm4267
    @scottm4267 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @-kaitharikalam7930
    @-kaitharikalam7930 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @williamtrajano7914
    @williamtrajano7914 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @osamasharaf3407
    @osamasharaf3407 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    beautiful

  • @dimitribazos1532
    @dimitribazos1532 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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
    @ankitdhami3350 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very nice video

  • @jims162
    @jims162 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

    • @TheHenryFord
      @TheHenryFord  3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you for watching!

  • @pedrorivera9779
    @pedrorivera9779 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you, very educative.

    • @KateLate____
      @KateLate____ 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Educational I think is the correct word, no?

  • @masterchief5437
    @masterchief5437 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    So where do I insert my USB?

  • @DiamondOre24
    @DiamondOre24 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

  • @anandand3646
    @anandand3646 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Mind blowing💥

  • @nirisa8747
    @nirisa8747 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Nice machine

  • @sock2828
    @sock2828 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @dragonsmith9012
      @dragonsmith9012 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @dragonsmith9012
      @dragonsmith9012 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Or make a Pixar Film. 😀

    • @AlanCanon2222
      @AlanCanon2222 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      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.

  • @garrettbell8419
    @garrettbell8419 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @nileshacharekar9465
    @nileshacharekar9465 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you

  • @JoGarciaMov
    @JoGarciaMov 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Speechless

  • @feefo8315
    @feefo8315 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Amazing 👏

  • @eliseolopez2790
    @eliseolopez2790 ปีที่แล้ว

    Amazing astonishing

  • @dave4882
    @dave4882 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @merkymerc
    @merkymerc 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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!

  • @DaviMKim
    @DaviMKim 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Jacquard are TRULLY fancy.

  • @tobydavidson8
    @tobydavidson8 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @dave4882
    @dave4882 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @davidandjessicaclay2333
    @davidandjessicaclay2333 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @masterchief5437
    @masterchief5437 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Can it run Doom?

    • @Kawa-oneechan
      @Kawa-oneechan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

    • @TheMarovan
      @TheMarovan 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I’m afraid it’s not Turing complete

  • @RaviKumar-cl6iy
    @RaviKumar-cl6iy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    computer before computer

  • @tasrifhasan739
    @tasrifhasan739 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @lazydave137
    @lazydave137 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    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 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      They did.

    • @Ramog1000
      @Ramog1000 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      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 ปีที่แล้ว

      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 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @ZTenski
    @ZTenski 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    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).

  • @jordanschmidt8572
    @jordanschmidt8572 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Principles of Computing Class WYA?

    • @jordanschmidt8572
      @jordanschmidt8572 4 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @the_hate_inside1085
    @the_hate_inside1085 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I´m scratching my apparatus right now.

  • @factormarketing5652
    @factormarketing5652 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    wooow

  • @qwertyasdfg7782
    @qwertyasdfg7782 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @astromentro408
    @astromentro408 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    wow op

  • @raviahuja9287
    @raviahuja9287 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    so basically MS Paint v1.1

  • @eldstgilmorbarboydodellatb4413
    @eldstgilmorbarboydodellatb4413 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿

  • @pradumnachaurasia7231
    @pradumnachaurasia7231 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @randomvideo4453
    @randomvideo4453 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I work this work

  • @rafetossked6723
    @rafetossked6723 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    pog champ

  • @MrBaz007
    @MrBaz007 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    YO HEAJ

  • @rodparsons521
    @rodparsons521 5 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @TemplarX2
    @TemplarX2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Jacquard should be considered the inventor the computer not Babbage.

    • @chalichaligha3234
      @chalichaligha3234 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@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 ปีที่แล้ว

      How can't card lesing solution give me video

  • @Together.we.grow.better
    @Together.we.grow.better 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    😕 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.

  • @guitarciaaleon5900
    @guitarciaaleon5900 ปีที่แล้ว

    An original Silk prayer book must be worth 🛸🎎📖

  • @animanoir
    @animanoir 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    syrobonkers

  • @eliseolopez2790
    @eliseolopez2790 ปีที่แล้ว

    Saturate me humanity for your benefit

  • @sandrahmonthieuxpelage8915
    @sandrahmonthieuxpelage8915 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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
    @sadafzafar9110 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    poor