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1752 – 1834Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752-1834)Died 7 August 1834, aged 82Jacquard was a French weaver and inventor who devised a punched-card mechanism that automated the weaving of complex patterns into cloth. The Jacquard loom's use of punched cards to control a machine's operations later influenced the design of early computing devices such as Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine. He died in Oullins, near Lyon.