Joseph Marie Jacquard

Joseph Marie Jacquard

male, deceased (1834)
Oullins, straw hat, plaiting, Jacquardloom, the Convention, Bresse…Jacquard weaving, loom
Joseph Marie Jacquard was a straw hat maker before becoming a French silk weaver and inventor, who improved on the original punched card design of...
Basile Bouchon

Basile Bouchon

inventor, French, lyon, organ, loom, textile…Jacquardloom
Basile Bouchon was a textile worker in Lyon who invented a way to control a loom with a perforated paper tape in 1725. The son of an organ maker,...
Pierre Jaquet-Droz

Pierre Jaquet-Droz

male, deceased (1790)
Jaquet-Droz automata, Swatch Group, eighteenth century, computer, automata, Swiss…Jacquardloom
Pierre Jaquet-Droz (1721-1790) was a Swiss-born watchmaker of the late eighteenth century. He lived in Paris, London, and Geneva, where he designed...