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POSSELT, EMMANUEL ANTHONY. 1858-1921. The Jacquard Machine Analyzed and Explained: With an Appendix on the Preparation of Jacquard Cards, and Practical Hints to Learners of Jacquard Designing. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art, 1888. image 1
POSSELT, EMMANUEL ANTHONY. 1858-1921. The Jacquard Machine Analyzed and Explained: With an Appendix on the Preparation of Jacquard Cards, and Practical Hints to Learners of Jacquard Designing. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art, 1888. image 2
POSSELT, EMMANUEL ANTHONY. 1858-1921. The Jacquard Machine Analyzed and Explained: With an Appendix on the Preparation of Jacquard Cards, and Practical Hints to Learners of Jacquard Designing. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art, 1888. image 3
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POSSELT, EMMANUEL ANTHONY. 1858-1921.
The Jacquard Machine Analyzed and Explained: With an Appendix on the Preparation of Jacquard Cards, and Practical Hints to Learners of Jacquard Designing. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art, 1888.

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POSSELT, EMMANUEL ANTHONY. 1858-1921.

The Jacquard Machine Analyzed and Explained: With an Appendix on the Preparation of Jacquard Cards, and Practical Hints to Learners of Jacquard Designing. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art, 1888.
4to (278 x 194 mm). Illustrated throughout, 2 folding plates. Original pebbled brown cloth stamp in gilt. Spotting to covers, spine sunned and corners worn, hinges cracked.
Provenance: George Moon, New Bedford, MA (ownership inscription dated Jan 1, 1888); the Computer History Collection of Serge Roubé.

RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE MOST DETAILED BOOK ON THE JACQUARD LOOM. "This extensively illustrated work is the most detailed published account of the design and operation of the Jacquard loom, on which Jacquard himself appears to have never published any details" (OOC). The Jacquard loom was the first machine to use punched cards to control a sequence of operations, an important advance towards the development of computer programming. Babbage planned to use punched cards to store programs in his Analytical engine. Hook & Norman Origins of Cyberspace 355.

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