Jacquard's Web
Author: James Essinger
Jacquard's Web tells one of the greatest untold stories of science: how the Jacquard loom, invented in 1804 by a weaver and ex-soldier named Joseph-Marie Jacquard, caused a revolution in the potential of machinery that is still going on today.
In this fascinating and engaging tale, James Essinger traces the 200-year evolution of Jacquard's idea from the studios of eighteenth-century French weavers, through the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century, to the information revolution of the twentieth century and to the billions of desktop computers that we rely on around the world today.
