Basile Bouchon var en tekstilarbeider på silkesenteret i Lyon som oppfant en måte å kontrollere en vev ved hjelp av hullbånd i 1725.[1] Han var sønn av en orgelmaker. Bouchon delvis automatiserte den kjedelige prosessen med å sette opp en vev hvor en operator løfter trådene med snorer.
Jean-Claude Heudin (2007). Les créatures artificielles: Des automates aux mondes virtuels. Odile Jacob. s.73. ISBN978-2-7381-2002-1.
Poncelet, Jean-Victor, Travaux de la Commission Francaise. L’Exposition Universelle de 1851, vol. 3, part 1 (Machines et outils appliqués aux arts textiles), section 2, pages 348-349 (1857). [Poncelet’s history of the Jacquard loom is the basis for most subsequent accounts.]
Usher, Abbot Payson. A History of Mechanical Inventions. Revised edition. (Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, Inc., 1988), pages 289-291. (Originally published in 1929 by Harvard University Press in Cambridge, Mass.)
Randell, Brian, ed. The Origins of Digital Computers: Selected Papers, 3rd ed. (N.Y., N.Y.: Springer-Verlag, 1982), page 5.
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Ballot, Charles. L’introduction du machinisme dans l’industrie française. (Lille-Paris: F. Rieder, 1923), page 339.
Ballot, Charles. Revue d'histoire de Lyon: Études, Documents, Bibliographie (Lyon, France: A. Rey et Co., 1913), vol. 2, pages 6–10.
Barlow, Alfred. The History and Principles of Weaving by Hand and by Power (London, England: Kessinger Publishing, 2007). See Chapter 11. (Originally published in 1876 by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington in London.)
