Read the following sentences from the text.
“The [Jacquard loom] used a series of “punch cards” that were encoded with the information for weaving a pattern. This eliminated the need for a separate person to manually lift threads and create the design. Each punch card had holes that corresponded to the threads that needed to be lifted in a row of weaving…
[Babbage] believed a punch card system could be used to make mathematical tables (needed for engineering, navigation, and science). He began working on a machine that would do this, calling it an Analytical Engine. His friend, Ada Lovelace went even further, observing that such an analytical engine could be used not only for mathematics, but for automating and manipulating any data. She proposed that combinations of the two numbers in a binary code could be used to represent other variables, such as letters, symbols, or even musical notes!”
What can you conclude about the connection between the Jacquard loom and Babbage and Lovelace’s ideas?
Instead of each hole in a punch card representing a row of thread, Babbage and Lovelace’s design used holes in punch cards to represent colors in a painting palette.
Like the Jacquard loom, Babbage and Lovelace’s ideas were mostly about how to make weaving faster and more efficient.
Instead of each hole in a punch card representing a row of thread, Babbage and Lovelace’s design used holes in punch cards to represent other data.
Babbage and Lovelace created a new, faster Jacquard loom, and then used the punch card system to help them organize their taxes.