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Portrait of Joseph-Marie Jacquard, 1839
Carquillat, Michel-Marie, Didier Petit et Cie, and Bonnefond, Jean-Claude1839
The Henry Ford
Dearborn, MI, United States
This portrait of French inventor Joseph-Marie Jacquard (1752 - 1834) was woven of fine silk using the mechanism that he developed and patented in 1804. Jacquard's device employs punched cards to store the intricate pattern design and to control the loom. These loom cards eventually led to the data cards used in early digital computers.
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- Title: Portrait of Joseph-Marie Jacquard, 1839
- Creator: Carquillat, Michel-Marie, Didier Petit et Cie, Bonnefond, Jean-Claude
- Date: 1831
- Date Created: 1839
- Location: France
- Subject Keywords: Jacquard, Joseph-Marie, 1752-1834, Jacquard weaving, Looms (Textile tools), Portraits
- Type: Objects
- Contributor: The Henry Ford
- Original Source: Digital Collections
- Object Name: Portrait
- Object ID: 39.173.1
- Inventor: Joseph Marie Jacquard
- Invention: Jacquard loom
- Image ID: THF150179
- Field: Textile manufacture
- Credit: From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Gabrielle Dannenfeld.
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