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The Jacquard Loom: A Driver of the Industrial Revolution (2016)
- dang 8y agoRelated discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8479430 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8479430 (2014) and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9993953 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9993953 (2015).
- j1vms 8y agoPossibly of interest to others, Jacquard Loom also inspired a song by Boards of Canada: https://bocpages.org/wiki/Jacquard_Causeway https://bocpages.org/wiki/Jacquard_Causeway
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- mitchbob 8y agoAn episode [1] of my favorite TV show ever, Connections [2], did a great job of showing what an important step the Jacquard loom was in getting to today's digital systems. [1] https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3dvbkg https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3dvbkg [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(TV_series) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(TV_series)
- branweb 8y agoCame here to post this. Love James Burke's work! Connections is my all-time favorite documentary. It changed how I think about technological progress (or really, historical progress generally). Frankly this article should have credited Burke since it reads like a summary of the Connections episode you mentioned. But I guess everybody steals from everybody.