Jacquards' Web (42 page)

Napoleon,
see
Bonaparte,

Napoleon

Macready, William
2
,
112

National Cash Register Company

magnetic tape
244
,
251

(NCR)
184
–
6
,
194

300

Index

Newstead Abbey (Byron’s ancestral

punched card technology
196
–
7

home)
146

Jacquard loom
5
,
35
–
8

CB
47
–
9
,
85
–
92
,
90
,
138
–
42
,

on/off switches
88
,
240
,
245

139

Ordnance Survey (France)
60
–
3

HH
151
–
2
,
159
–
72
,
166
,
167
,

Owen, Richard
2

173
–
4

modern applications
237
,
246
,

Packard, David
245

248
–
52
,
250

pantograph punch
165
–
6
,
166

Pascal, Blaise
68
–
9

rational calendar
28

Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

Reform Act (
1832
)
104

(CB’s autobiography)
54
–
5
,

Remington Rand
194
,
197
–
8

66
,
86
–
9
,
91
,
95
–
7
,
134
–
5
,

Roosevelt, President
201

221
,
233

New Deal
199
–
200
,
201

Patterson, John H.
184
–
6
,
187
,

Royal Astronomical Society
65
–
6
,

188
,
199

76
,
83
,
216

Peacock, George
57

Royal Society
59
,
68
,
76
,
103

Peel, Sir Robert
102
–
4
,
105
–
8
,

Russian Census (
1896
)
175

107
,
110
–
12
,
114
–
15

Pentium chip
248

sales force motivation
184
–
6
,

Piedmont and Sardinia, Queen of

187
–
9
,
199

97

scanners
43
,
169

pixels
253
–
4
,
256
,
282

Scher, Richard K.
251
–
2

Plana, Giovanni
95
–
6
,
101
–
2
,

Science Museum, London
5
,
85
,

110

265
–
9

Post Office Research Laboratories,

semiconductors
247

London
246
–
7

Shanks, William
68

Potter, Harry
258

Signs of the Times
(Carlyle)
115

powered loom
42
–
3

Si Ling-Chi
7

Powers, James (HH’s rival)
170
,

silk
4
,
14
,
30

197
–
8

history
7
–
8

printing
62
–
3
,
171
–
2
,
208
,
228

industry
8
–
9
,
13
,
14
–
16
,
20
–
1
,

processing time
240
,
247
–
8

35
,
86

processor
49
,
88
–
9
,
234
,
248

slide rule
209

programming
5
,
43
,
49
,
86
–
91
,

Smith, Adam
61

170
,
227
–
8
,
248
–
9

Society for the Furtherance of

proposal for modern computer

National Industry
33
–
4

220
–
5

Social Security Act (
1935
)
201
–
2

301

• Jacquard's Web: How a Hand-loom Led to the Birth of the Information Age
  
  • Contents
    
  • List of Illustrations
    
  • 1 The engraving that wasn’t
    
  • 2 A better mousetrap
    
  • 3 The son of a master-weaver
    
  • 4 The Emperor’s new clothes
    
  • 5 From weaving to computing
    
  • 6 The Difference Engine
    
  • 7 The Analytical Engine
    
  • 8 A question of faith and funding
    
  • 9 The lady who loved the Jacquard loom
    
  • 10 A crisis with the American Census
    
  • 11 The first Jacquard looms that wove information
    
  • 12 The birth of IBM
    
  • 13 The Thomas Watson phenomenon
    
  • 14 Howard Aiken dreams of a computer
    
  • 15 IBM and the Harvard Mark 1
    
  • 16 Weaving at the speed of light
    
  • 17 The future
    
  • Appendix 1 Charles Babbage’s vindication
    
  • Appendix 2 Ada Lovelace’s letter to Charles Babbage, 14 August 1843
    
  • Appendix 3 How the Jacquard loom worked
    
  • Acknowledgements
    
  • Notes on sources
    
  • Bibliography
    
  • Index