COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS
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Question
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He improved the idea to store information on punched paper or wood in the fabric weaving industry.
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Herman Hollerith
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Ada Lovelace
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Joseph Marie Jacquard
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Dr. John Mauchly
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Joseph Marie Jacquard, a French inventor from a weaving family, invented the Jacquard loom which kickstarted the automation of the weaving industry. The Jacquard loom used programmable cards and went on to influence Charles Babbages work so the loom is considered an important step towards modern computing.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1801 the Frenchman Joseph Marie Jacquard invented a power loom that could base its weave (and hence the design on the fabric) upon a pattern automatically read from punched wooden cards, held together in a long row by rope.
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