Card, punch
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- OBJECT TYPE
- JACQUARD LOOM
- DATE
- Unknown
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1966.0684.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Unknown
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- Unknown
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 6
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- PAPER - CARDBOARD
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 32.0 cm
- Width
- 6.8 cm
- Height
- N/A
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Industrial Technology
- Category
- Industrial equipment
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Unknown
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- Unknown
- Canada
-
Unknown - Function
-
A CARD HAVING HOLES PUNCHED IN SPECIFIC POSITIONS & PATTERNS SO AS TO REPRESENT DATA IN A MACHINE-READABLE FORM THAT CAN BE READ MECHANICALLY. THIS TYPE CONTAINS INSTRUCTIONS ENABLING AN INDUSTRIAL LOOM TO BE OPERATED SEMI-AUTOMATICALLY: A PUNCHED CARD CONTROLS THE WARP YARNS RAISED FOR A SINGLE ROW OF A PATTERN. - Technical
-
EXAMPLES OF JACQUARD LOOM CARDS. IN 1803 FRENCH SILK WEAVER JACQUARD BEGAN DESIGN OF A LOOM ATTACHMENT WHICH PARTIALLY AUTOMATED THE WEAVING PROCESS, MAKING IT POSSIBLE FOR A SINGLE WEAVER TO WEAVE COMPLEX PATTERNS WITHOUT AN ASSISTANT. AS LATE AS 1990, PUNCHED CARDS WERE STILL USED TO A LIMITED EXTENT IN WEAVING IN THE U.S. & ELSEWHERE. - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- HAND INKED NUMBER READS "78"
- Missing
- N/A
- Finish
- BEIGE
- Decoration
- N/A
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Unknown Manufacturer, Card, punch, Unknown Date, Artifact no. 1966.0684, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/item/1966.0684.001/
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