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Joseph Marie Jacquard

1752 - 1834

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Joseph Marie Charles dit (called or nicknamed) Jacquard (French: [ʒakaʁ]; 7 July 1752 – 7 August 1834) was a French weaver and merchant. He played an important role in the development of the earliest programmable loom (the "Jacquard loom"), which in turn played an important role in the development of other programmable machines, such as an early version of digital compiler used by IBM to develop the modern day computer. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Marie Jacquard is the 39th most popular inventor (down from 30th in 2019), the 459th most popular biography from France (down from 362nd in 2019) and the 7th most popular French Inventor.

Joseph Marie Jacquard was a French inventor who is most famous for inventing the Jacquard loom.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Joseph Marie Jacquard ranks 39 out of 426. Before him are Samuel Colt, Gideon Sundback, John Herschel, Antonio Meucci, Igor Sikorsky, and László Bíró. After him are Frank Whittle, Bob Kahn, Ismail al-Jazari, Adolphe Sax, Wilhelm Maybach, and Herman Hollerith.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1752, Joseph Marie Jacquard ranks 3. Before him are Maria Carolina of Austria, and Jeongjo of Joseon. After him are Muzio Clementi, Adrien-Marie Legendre, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Karl Mack von Leiberich, Princess Friederike of Hesse-Darmstadt, Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, Amalie of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, Thomas Chatterton, and Jacques Roux. Among people deceased in 1834, Joseph Marie Jacquard ranks 5. Before him are Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, Thomas Robert Malthus, Pedro I of Brazil, and Friedrich Schleiermacher. After him are Sunjo of Joseon, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, François-Adrien Boieldieu, Alois Senefelder, Fath-Ali Shah Qajar, Karl Ludwig Harding, and Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh.

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In France

Among people born in France, Joseph Marie Jacquard ranks 459 out of 6,770. Before him are Robert I of France (860), Paul Barras (1755), Émile Bernard (1868), Theodor Eicke (1892), Leslie Caron (1931), and André Le Nôtre (1613). After him are Alphonse de Lamartine (1790), Auguste Escoffier (1847), Livilla (-13), Jean Monnet (1888), Alexis Carrel (1873), and Paul Éluard (1895).

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Among INVENTORS In France

Among inventors born in France, Joseph Marie Jacquard ranks 7. Before him are Louis Braille (1809), Louis Daguerre (1787), Nicolas Appert (1749), Rudolf Diesel (1858), Nicéphore Niépce (1765), and Denis Papin (1647). After him are Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (1725), Louis Blériot (1872), Louis Renault (1877), Claude Chappe (1763), Jacques de Vaucanson (1709), and Alphonse Bertillon (1853).

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