This is the very beginning of computers! (From weaving cards to the Internet.) I loved James Burke's program "Connections" - saw it on PBS and it should be run again.
I just bought the series on DVD for like $25 on eBay. Epic show; i remember seeing it more than 20 years ago and I've raved about it ever since. Nice double-header with the original COSMOS.
I like how humans apparently hate weaving so much that we basically continuously made the process more and more automated over the course of tens of thousands of years until looms finally became fully programmable in the 1700s. We sorta slowly and accidentally made a computer, just so we didn't have to weave anymore.
Plato's Republic says "our need will be the real creator",[5] which Jowett's 1894 translation rendered loosely as "The true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our invention."
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I finally found the perfect video! with great explanations, details of the mechanisms functionning, and a great history insight.
couldn’t have said it any better simón 💯
This is the very beginning of computers! (From weaving cards to the Internet.)
I loved James Burke's program "Connections" - saw it on PBS and it should be
run again.
From bell pegs to computers.
I just bought the series on DVD for like $25 on eBay. Epic show; i remember seeing it more than 20 years ago and I've raved about it ever since. Nice double-header with the original COSMOS.
phoebecatgirl v
I like how humans apparently hate weaving so much that we basically continuously made the process more and more automated over the course of tens of thousands of years until looms finally became fully programmable in the 1700s.
We sorta slowly and accidentally made a computer, just so we didn't have to weave anymore.
Plato's Republic says "our need will be the real creator",[5] which Jowett's 1894 translation rendered loosely as "The true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our invention."
Beautiful silk weaving has to be time consuming.
Thank you thank you for this video.
Amazing
Super Super
along with Rory the Roman!
the video cuts off at the end ..?
Goes on/connects to a different subject
How did the Chinese do it? Did they not use a machine?
That is a good question.
Anyone know how to spell the name of "one of the greatest machine makers at all time" at 3:13? Wish to Google him
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_de_Vaucanson
Thanks!
Hughes Math
put people out of a job coining the term 'Vaucason' 👻
vacation ?
'looming around' 👻