Joseph Marie Charles dit Joseph-Marie Jacquard was a French weaver and merchant.
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21 Facts About Joseph-Marie Jacquard
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Joseph-Marie Jacquard played an important role in the development of the earliest programmable loom, which in turn played an important role in the development of other programmable machines, such as an early version of digital compiler used by IBM to develop the modern day computer.
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Joseph-Marie Jacquard was one of nine children of Jean Charles dit Jacquard, a master weaver of Lyon, and his wife, Antoinette Rive.
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Joseph-Marie Jacquard was finally taught by his brother-in-law, Jean-Marie Barret, who ran a printing and book selling business.
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Joseph initially helped his father operate his loom, but the work proved too arduous, so Joseph-Marie Jacquard was placed first with a bookbinder and then with a maker of printers' type.
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Joseph-Marie Jacquard's mother died in 1762, and when his father died in 1772, Joseph inherited his father's house, looms and workshop as well as a vineyard and quarry in Couzon-au-Mont d'Or.
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British economist Sir John Bowring met Joseph-Marie Jacquard, who told Bowring that at one time he had been a maker of straw hats.
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Eymard claimed that before becoming involved in the weaving of silk, Joseph-Marie Jacquard was a type-founder, a soldier, a bleacher of straw hats, and a lime burner .
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Barlow claims that before marrying, Joseph-Marie Jacquard had worked for a bookbinder, a type-founder, and a maker of cutlery.
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Joseph-Marie Jacquard was a middle-class widow from Lyon who owned property and had a substantial dowry.
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Barlow claims that after Joseph-Marie Jacquard's father died, Joseph-Marie Jacquard started a figure-weaving business but failed and lost all his wealth.
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Joseph-Marie Jacquard's wife retained a house in Oullins, where the couple resided.
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For example, he stated that Joseph-Marie Jacquard's wife Claudette Boichon was the daughter of Antoine-Helon Boichon, a master swordsmith, whereas Claudette was a widow who had been married to a Mr Boichon before she married Joseph-Marie Jacquard.
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Joseph-Marie Jacquard invented a treadle loom in 1800, a loom to weave fishing nets in 1803, and starting in 1804, the “Jacquard” loom, which would weave patterned silk automatically.
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In 1801, Joseph-Marie Jacquard exhibited his invention at the Exposition des produits de l'industrie francaise in Paris, where he was awarded a bronze medal.
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The loom was declared public property in 1805, and Joseph-Marie Jacquard was rewarded with a pension and a royalty on each machine.
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Joseph-Marie Jacquard Loom is a mechanical loom that uses pasteboard cards with punched holes, each card corresponding to one row of the design.
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Joseph-Marie Jacquard was not the first to try to automate the process of weaving.
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Joseph-Marie Jacquard developed an attachment for looms in which Bouchon's paper strip was replaced by a chain of punched cards, which could deflect multiple rows of hooks simultaneously.
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Joseph-Marie Jacquard's loom was modestly successful; about 40 such looms had been sold by 1762.
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