1836 · Jacquard Cards · Werk 488 von 1.871

An engineering drawing of a card reading mechanism taken from the Jacquard loom, ink on cream paper, plan and elevation, a chain of stiff punched cards laced edge to edge shown running over a square prism, each card pierced with a grid of round holes, rows of blunt needles held above the cards on a hinged frame, ruled dimension lines, the title block a plain ruled box, the sheet laid flat on a grey studio table, even flat light from directly above.
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