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Jean-Baptiste Falcon and Basile Bouchon were the first to use punch cards to control textile looms, Joseph Marie Jacquard improved it with his 'Jacquard Loom' and Charles Babbage came up with idea of how to use it as input for a computer. Herman Hollerith came up with a working model of the punched card loom for the US Census at the end of the 19th century.
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The Jacquard loom is a mechanical loom, invented by Joseph Marie Jacquard in 1801, that simplifies the process of manufacturing textiles. The loom is controlled by punched cards with punched holes, each row of which corresponds to one row of the design. Multiple rows of holes are punched on each card and the many cards that compose the design of the textile are strung together in order. It is based on earlier inventions by the Frenchmen Basile Bouchon (1725), Jean Baptiste Falcon (1728) and Jacques Vaucanson (1740)
So we can trace computer programming way back to 1725!
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What were the Significances of punching cards in computers?
Punch cards were used by computer programmers back when computers used punch cards. The cards were used to tell the computer what to do. Programmers had a machine that they used to write computer programs and it would punch the holes in the cards. It took a lot of cards just to write on program.
Are punch card used for data analysis?
Punch cards store data. That data can then be analysed by feeding the cards into a punch card reader.
What was Joseph Marie's contribution to computers?
Joseph Marie Jacquard invented the Jacquard loom in 1804. It was a machine that weaved complex fabric design. It was the first machine that used punched cards. These (punched cards) were used to control the weaving process particularly the design of the clothes to be woven. In others words, he made a programmable loom,
What kinds of cards were used to control the pattern in textile factories?
Punch cards.
What government first used punch cards?
census
What burearu government first used punch cards?
census
Who invented the first statistical machines using punched cards and started a company which eventually became IBM?
Herman Hollerith invented punch cards and used them with his tabulators in the Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation which later merged with two other companies to form IBM
What was invented in 1801?
One item invented in 1801 was the Jacquard Loom. This was invented by Joseph Marie Jacquard. This is used in manufacturing textiles.
What is Hollerith's punch cards and tabulating machines?
They were used to record information
Which bureau of government first used punch cards?
Herman Hollerith
Who invented the punch card machine?
Herman Hollerith was likely the person you're looking for. He invented and was awarded patents for a series of machines that used punched holes for a method of recording data. The true ancestor of our punch cards we think of today such as the IBM type 80. Hope this helps!
What are the early forms of data representation?
earliest used in computers i can think of is punch cards
