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Interesting Engineering on MSN3,000-year-old silk weaving inspires China’s next-gen stealth radar-absorbing techChinese researchers have allegedly found a novel way to solve long-term stealth coating integrity with an ancient ...
While the US struggles with deteriorating radar-absorbent materials, China has looked to the past for its cutting-edge ...
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osCPWMyJOj8&w=470] The Jacquard loom, invented in the early 1800s, used punched cards to manufacture relatively complex ...
Developed by the French silk-weaver, Joseph-Marie Jacquard (1752-1834), to control its operation, the loom used a chain of cards punched with holes in a continuous loop. Although punch cards were ...
Punch cards have been used to control the operation of machinery from the early nineteenth century, when the Frenchman Joseph Marie Jacquard patented an attachment to a loom in which a series of ...
By the Han era, these had evolved into sophisticated machines with up to 120 heddle rods – a technology preserved in the world’s first jacquard weaving machine unearthed at Chengdu’s ...
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