
Jacquard's Web
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- Acknowledgements
- 1: The engraving that wasn't
- 2: A better mouse-trap
- 3: The son of a master weaver
- 4: The emperor's new clothes
- 5: From weaving to computing
- 6: The difference engine
- 7: The analytical engine
- 8: A question of faith and funding
- 9: The lady who loved the Jacquard loom
- 10: A crisis with the American census
- 11: The first Jacquard looms that wove information
- 12: The birth of IBM
- 13: The Thomas Watson phenomenon
- 14: Howard Aiken dreams of a computer
- 15: IBM and the Harvard Mark 1
- 16: Weaving at the speed of light
- 17: The future
- Index
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