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      Joseph Marie Jacquard
          
          * 1752 Lyon
              + 1834 Oullins, Département Métropole de Lyon
          
          
           
        
      
      
      Joseph Marie Charles dit Jacquard 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.
      
      
      
        
        
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