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EPISODE · Sep 11, 2025 · 49 MIN

#343 Weaving Software into Automation

from Engineering Matters

Joseph-Marie Jacquard invented the punch card as a means of inputting control data to one of the earliest automated technologies, the weavers’ loom. A generation later, Charles Babbage used this innovation as part of his design for an ‘analytical engine’, and Ada Lovelace demonstrated how sets of instructions could be written for the engine to...

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