Since you might not have heard of the device before, here's a quick rundown. The device attached to a weaving loom and used printed punch cards to "program" patterns into the looms woven fabric.

SURAT: After selling one lakh conventional powerlooms in scrap due to adverse impact of Goods and Services Tax (GST) and demonetization in the country's largest man-made fabric (MMF) hub of Surat, ...

Joseph-Marie Jacquard was in his fifties when he invented the Jacquard machine. In Arthur C Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), the supercomputer HAL prioritises mission objectives over the lives ...