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Jacquard's Web: How a Hand-Loom Led to the Birth of the Information Age
Jacquard's Web How a HandLoom Led to the Birth of the Information Age
Author: James Essinger
Jacquard's Web is the story of some of the most ingenious inventors the world has ever known, a fascinating account of how a hand-loom invented in Napoleonic France led to the development of the modern information age. James Essinger, a master story-teller, shows through a series of remarkable and meticulously researched historical connections (...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780192805782
ISBN-10: 0192805789
Publication Date: 4/27/2007
Pages: 320
Edition: New Ed
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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