Today we visited the Norwich Museum and Cathedral. I have never seen so many churches in one city before. From one corner we could see 4 churches but many are now used as art and culture centres and the like. I was intrigued by the old weaving machine in the Museum which was made around 1890 with a mechanism invented by Jacquard that is said to be the 'first computer' as it is based on a binary system using holes punched in card sets which read the message to lift the warp thread. Reminded me of the Fortran punch cards we used in the 70's for computer programming.
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| Loom for weaving in Norwich Museum |
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| Punch cards for loom |
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