Jacquards' Web (41 page)

Colossus computer
246
–
7

Didier Petit & Co
5
,
94
–
5

Columbia School of Mines
153

Difference Engine
1
,
3
,
48
,

Columbia University Computation

63
–
79
,
74
,
76
,
83
,
100
–
6
,

Center
216
,
220

114
,
142

Comptometer
207

modern version of
265
–
9
,
266
,

conceptual links:

267

Jacquard loom with modern

digital computers
215
,
243
–
8

computer
5
,
22
,
87
,
160
,

digital images
254
–
6
,
255

192
–
3
,
215
,
222
,
252
–
63

Disraeli, Benjamin
124

297

Jacquard’s Web

drawloom
10
–
11
,
11
,
14
,
16
–
18
,

French Society for the Manufacture

35

of Fabrics for the Furnishing

and Decoration of

Eckert, J. Presper
243
–
4

Churches
94

Edison Effect
241

Edison, Thomas
240
–
1
,
258

Galle, Johann Gotfried
104

electric punch
169

Gates, Bill
258

electromagnetic technology

Goulbourn, Henry
67
,
105
–
6

171
–
2
,
240

Government Code and Cypher

electromechanical computers

School (‘Station X’)
246

202
–
3
,
212
,
240

Great Exhibition (
1851
)
206

electronic computers
202
,
215
,

236
,
241
–
9

Hammer, William J.
240
–
1
,
258

Electronic Numerical Integrator

hand-looms
9
–
11
;
see also
and Calculator (ENIAC)
243
,

drawloom

247

Harvard Mark I
226
–
37
,
240
,
247

Eliot, George
127

‘Heath Robinson’ computer
246

Emerson, Ralph Waldo
13

Herschel, John
2
,
46
,
57
–
8
,
59
,

Enigma machine
246
–
7

65
–
6
,
67
,
78
,
216

Enquire
256
–
7

Herschel, Sir William
59

Extended Binary Coded Decimal

Hewlett, William
245

Interchange Code (EBCDIC)

Hewlett-Packard (HP)
245

252

Hollerith, Herman
152
,
221
–
2

conceptual link with Jacquard

Falcon loom
36
,
37

loom
149
–
52
,
159
–
61
,
164
,

Faraday, Michael
212
,
213

181
,
202
,
222
,
260

Felt and Tarrant
207

character
149
–
50

Felt, Dorr E.
207

birth and early years
152

first generation computers
246

education
153

Fitton, Henry
2
,
78

involvement in US Census

Flint, Charles Ranelagh
180
–
3
,

153
–
7
,
162
,
172
–
6
,
251

186
–
7
,
193

patent for punched paper tape

floppy disks
251

tabulator
163
–
4
,
173

Flowers, Dr Thomas
246
–
7

use of punched cards
164
–
70
,

François I
15

166
,
167
,
173
–
4
,
250
,
251

French Ordnance Survey
60
–
3

rental market
173
–
4
,
195
–
6

French Revolution
24
–
5
,
27
–
8
,

Tabulating Machine Company

34

176
–
9
,
181
–
2

298

Index

foreign and commercial markets

Jacquard, Clémence (J’s sister)
22
,

150
,
175
–
80
,
196

23

health
180
,
181

Jacquard, Jean-Charles (J’s father)

relationship with Watson
183
,

22
,
23

189
–
91

Jacquard, Jean-Marie (J’s son)
24
,

retirement and death
183
,
191
,

25

194

Jacquard, Joseph-Marie

Hollerith, Johann Georg

11
–
13
,
116
–
17
,
151

(HH’s father)
152

portrait
xii
,
3
–
5
,
36
–
7
,
41
,
46
,

human ‘computers’
66
,
215
–
6

93
–
5
,
97
,
141

human intelligence
260
–
2

statue
21
–
2

birth and early years
22
–
4

IBM
150
,
193
,
224
–
6
,
251

marriage
24

foundation
192
,
194

military career
24
–
5

rental business
196
,
200

early loom-making
30
–
3

sale of punched cards
172
,

patent for punched card loom

196
–
7
,
200

35
;
see also
Jacquard loom punched card machines
198
–
9
,

awards
33
,
34
,
39
,
40

216

retirement and death
40

supply of tabulators to US

Jacquard loom
4
–
5
,
12
–
13
,

Federal Government
201
–
2

85
–
92
,
151
,
277
–
82
,
278
,

work for US Army
226

281

world’s first computer

history
35
–
42

225
–
37

modern looms
42
–
3

Industrial Revolution
12
,
30
,
42
,

conceptual link to modern

51
,
67

computer
5
,
22
,
87
,

information processing
155
–
72

160
,
192
–
3
,
215
,
222
,

Intel Pentium chip
248

252
–
63

International Business Machines

Jane Eyre
(Brontë)
127

Company,
see
IBM

Jens Olsen Astronomical Clock

Internet
256
–
7
,
258

71
–
2

inventions, concept of
37
,
151
,

Justinian I
8

239
–
40

Kasparov, Gary
261

Jacquard, Antoinette (J’s mother)

keyboard driven punches
169

22

key-driven calculators
207
–
8

Jacquard, Claudine (née Boichon)

King, Lord William (AL’s husband)

(J’s wife)
24
,
40

130
–
1
,
145

299

Jacquard’s Web

knowledge, new, four stages of

Manual of Operation for the Automatic

212
–
3

Sequence Controlled Calculator

Kubrick, Stanley
59

(Aiken)
233
–
5

Massachusetts Institute of

Lake, Clair D.
225

Technology (MIT)
162

Laurel and Hardy
192

mathematical tables
48
,
60
–
2
,

Legendre, Adrien-Marie
61

67
–
8
,
72
–
3
,
205
–
10
,
216
,

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm
57
,

229
,
236

68
–
9

mathematics, nineteenth century

Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany

views on
56
–
7

97
–
8

Mattelon, Georges
20
–
1

light bulb
240
–
1
,
258

Mauchly, John W.
243
–
4

Little Dorritt
(Dickens)
112
,
113

memory
49
,
88
–
9
,
234
,
246
,
248
,

Little Engine that Could’ve, The

258

(Collier)
87

Menabrea, Luigi Frederico
102
,

Louis XI
14
–
15

122
–
3
,
132
–
5
,
145

Louis XVI
33

Method of Differences
72
–
3

Lorenz (SZ
42
) cypher
246
–
7

Meyer, Albert (HH’s brother-in-

Lovelace, Ada
(née Byron)
2
,

law)
160

81
–
3
,
117
,
120
,
147

microprocessors
248

birth
124

Microsoft
258
,
268

education
125
–
7
,
132

‘mill’
49
,
88
–
9
,
234

first meeting with CB
128

Millionaire calculator
208

marriage and children
130
–
2

mise-en-carte
280
,
282

letters to CB
129
,
140
,
143
–
4
,

Monroe Calculating Company

270
–
6

217
–
18

interpretation of CB’s work

Moulton, Lord
146
–
7

122
–
3
,
132
–
8
,
140
–
3
,
145

MS-DOS
252

decline and death
145
–
6

Museum of the History of

Lovelace, Byron (AL’s son)
131
,

Weaving, Lyons
254

135

Museum of Weaving and

Lyell, Charles
2

Decorative Arts, Lyons
39

Lyons
12
,
13
–
18
,
19
–
22
,
24
–
5
,

Myhrvold, Nathan
268

31
,
42
,
95

Lyons Textiles Museum
16