First in War, First in Peace, and First in the Hearts of his Countrymen

by Jacquard Loom

$1,850 · Offered by Martayan Lan

Rare silk textile portrait of George Washington (1732-99) woven on the earliest programmable loom – the Jacquard Loom – which influenced the development of other programmable, punch-card-driven machines that in turn would lead to the early versions of IBM’s digital compiler. The present work thus may plausibly be considered the..... More

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