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          Babbage described his invention in a discourse entitled “Sketch of the Analytical Engine.” The story becomes more difficult to follow in the twentieth century....

          Inventions by the Frenchmen Basile Bouchon (), Jean Falcon () and.

        1. Basile Bouchon invents the first programmable loom; his co-worker, Jean-Baptiste Falcom, improves on the design the next year through.
        2. Babbage described his invention in a discourse entitled “Sketch of the Analytical Engine.” The story becomes more difficult to follow in the twentieth century.
        3. An interactive, illustrated timeline of historic moments in humankind's quest for information.
        4. Although Basile Bouchon's loom that utilizes perforated paper predates the Jacquard Loom by 80 years (), it was a semi-automated machine.

          5. Modesty is the color of virtue.
          Diogenes

          The first industrial application of a (semi)-automated machine was made in the early eighteenth century (at the beginning of the 1720s) by a modest textile worker from Lyon, France, named Basile Bouchon.

          Basile Bouchon, working in one of the many silk centers in Lyon (starting in the 16th century, Lyon became the capital of the European silk trade and production), invented in 1725 a way to control a loom with perforated paper tape.

          He was born in Luzarches, Île-de-France in a family of an organ maker and a weaver and was familiar with the rotating pegged cylinders used in automated organs, such as the barrel organ. Thus Bouchon knew that the information content for the cylinders of musical automata was first laid out on paper before the design was applied to actual very expensive cylinders.

          The practice then was to punch holes in the paper designs that were wrapped around the cylinders, indicating where the craftsman had to drill hol