Acknowledgements
1: The engraving that wasn't
2: A better mouse-trap
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
Index

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James Essinger is a writer with a particluar interest in the history of ideas that have had a practical impact on the modern world. He is currently working on a novel about Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace and on a popular history of the written word.

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Jacquard's web is a special book that explains more than the connection's between loom and computer: it presents a fascintaing history of talented and creative people developing and inventing the tools of progress. Chris Arney, Mathematical Reviews

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