Jacquard's Web
How a Hand-loom Led to the Birth of the Information Age
by James Essinger
302 pages· 2007· ISBN 9780192805782
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Traces the 200-year evolution of the principles of Jacquard's knitting machines to the information revolution of the twentieth century and the desk-top computer of today. --From cover (p. 4).
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