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Jacquard loom definition
history /zhah-kar'/ A mechanical loom, invented by
Joseph-Marie Jacquard in 1801, which used the holes punched in pasteboard
punch cards (which see) to control the weaving of patterns in fabric. It was the first machine to use punch cards, although it did no computation based on them.
(http://history.rochester.edu/steam/hollerith/loom.htm).
(1998-10-19)
