Joseph Marie Jacquard
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Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752–7 August 1834) was a straw hat maker[1] before becoming a French silk weaver and inventor, who improved on the original punched card design of Jacques de Vaucanson's loom of 1745, to invent the Jacquard loom mechanism in 1804-1805. Jacquard's loom mechanism is controlled by recorded patterns of holes in a string of cards, and allows what is now known as the Jacquard weaving of intricate patterns.
Jacquard died at Oullins (Rhône), 7 August 1834. Six years later a statue was erected to him in Lyon, on the site where his 1801 exhibit loom was destroyed.
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- ^ Harrison, Frederic (1892). The new calendar of great men: Biographies of the 558 Worthies of All Ages and Nations in the .... Original from the University of Michigan: Macmillan, Page 394.
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