Talk:Joseph Marie Jacquard
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This article was automatically assessed because at least one article was rated and this bot brought all the other ratings up to at least that level. BetacommandBot 04:28, 27 August 2007 (UTC) HI —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.240.166.58 (talk) 13:00, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] This biography of Jacquard is WRONG
Please see: Janet Delve, "Joseph Marie Jacquard: Inventor of the Jacquard loom," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 29, no. 4, pages 98-102 (October-December 2007).
Contrary to the account posted, Jacquard's father was a man of substantial property: he owned a workshop (where he kept his looms), a house, a vineyard, and a quarry. Joseph, the son, inherited all of this when his father died in 1772. Joseph dabbled in real estate. He married a widow of considerable property. He did fall into debt, but he did not become destitute. He did have a son Jean Marie (born 19 April 1799), but there is no evidence to support the claim that Jean Marie died at his father's side during a battle.
Jacquard's loom was NOT an immediate success: the mechanism that drove the belt of cards was faulty. Only after Jean Antoine Breton solved the mechanism's problems did sales of the loom improve.
I suspect that much of the misinformation about Jacquard came from this source, which was used as the basis of most subsequent accounts of Jacquard:
General Jean-Victor Poncelet, 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).
Cwkmail (talk) 17:11, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
