Download or read book Jacquard's Web written by James Essinger and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2007-03-29 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the 200-year evolution of the principles of Jacquard's knitting machines to the information revolution of the twentieth century and the desk-top computer of today. --From cover (p. 4).