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JACQUARD, JOSEPH MARIE (1752-1834) , French inventor, was born at Lyons on the 7th of July 1752. On the death of his father, who was a working weaver, be inherited two looms, with which he started business on his own account. He did not, however, prosper, and was at last forced to become a lime-burner at Bresse
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defence of Lyons against the troops of the Convention; but afterwards served in their ranks on the Rhone and Loire. After seeing some active service, in which his young
idea several years previously. In 18os he exhibited his invention at the industrial exhibition at Paris; and in 1803 he was summoned to Paris and attached to the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers. A loom by Jacques de Vaucanson (1709-1782), deposited there, suggested various improvements in his own, which he gradually perfected to its final state. Although his invention was fiercely opposed by the silk
machine . He died at Oullins (Rhone) on the 7th of August 1834, and six years later a statue was erected to him at Lyons (see WEAVING).End of Article: JACQUARD, JOSEPH MARIE (1752-1834) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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