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Jacquard's Web: How a hand-loom led to the birth of the information age
by James Essinger
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- ISBN 10
- 0192805789
- ISBN 13
- 9780192805782
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Paperback / softback. New. Jacquard's Web tells one of the greatest untold stories of science: how a hand loom invented in Napoleonic France led to the birth of the modern computer age. James Essinger, a master storyteller, traces the 200-year evolution of Jacquard's idea from the studios of 18th century weavers, through the Industrial Revolution to the development of hi-tech computers and the information age today.
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- The Saint Bookstore (GB)
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- Title
- Jacquard's Web: How a hand-loom led to the birth of the information age
- Author
- James Essinger
- Format/Binding
- Paperback / softback
- Book Condition
- New New
- Quantity Available
- 10
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0192805789
- ISBN 13
- 9780192805782
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Place of Publication
- Oxford, England
- This edition first published
- April 27, 2007
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