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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
This machine stored codes for weaving fabric in a pattern. It was the ____
A
Stepped Reckoner
B
Pascaline
C
Difference engine
D
Jaquard’s Loom
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Jacquard machine (French: [ʒakaʁ]) is a device fitted to a loom that simplifies the process of manufacturing textiles with such complex patterns as brocade, damask and matelassé.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Jacquard mechanism, invented by Frenchman Joseph Marie Jacquard and first demonstrated in 1801, simplified the way in which complex textiles such as damask were woven. The mechanism involved the use of thousands of punch cards laced together. Each row of punched holes corresponded to a row of a textile pattern.

Detailed explanation-3: -loom, machine for weaving cloth. The earliest looms date from the 5th millennium bc and consisted of bars or beams fixed in place to form a frame to hold a number of parallel threads in two sets, alternating with each other.

Detailed explanation-4: -Portrait of Jacquard inventor Joseph-Marie Jacquard. The original image was woven in silk on a Jacquard loom. Science Museum Group Collection More information. The original image was woven in silk on a Jacquard loom.

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