Definition of Joseph Marie Jacquard

1. Noun. French inventor of the Jacquard loom that could automatically weave complicated patterns (1752-1834).

Exact synonyms: Jacquard, Joseph M. Jacquard
Generic synonyms: Artificer, Discoverer, Inventor

Lexicographical Neighbors of Joseph Marie Jacquard

Joseph Greenberg
Joseph Haydn
Joseph Heller
Joseph Henry
Joseph Hilaire Peter Belloc
Joseph Hooker
Joseph Jacques Cesaire Joffre
Joseph Joachim
Joseph John Thomson
Joseph Lincoln Steffens
Joseph Lister
Joseph Louis Barrow
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
Joseph M. Jacquard
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Joseph Marie Jacquard (current term)
Joseph McCarthy
Joseph Oliver
Joseph Paul DiMaggio
Joseph Paxton
Joseph Priestley
Joseph Pulitzer
Joseph Raymond McCarthy
Joseph Rudyard Kipling
Joseph Schumpeter
Joseph Smith
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Warren Stilwell
Joseph ben Matthias
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Literary usage of Joseph Marie Jacquard

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lives of Poor Boys who Became Famous by Sarah Knowles Bolton (1922)
"Joseph Marie Jacquard THE small world which lives in elegant houses knows little of the great world in dingy apartments with bare walls and empty cupboards. ..."

2. The New Calendar of Great Men: Biographies of the 558 Worthies of All Ages by Frederic Harrison (1892)
"Joseph Marie JACQUARD was born at Lyons in 1752. He was of humble origin, and earned his living as a straw-hat maker. His mechanical genius remained ..."

3. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1906)
"The jacquard machine derives its name from its inventor, Joseph Marie Jacquard, a mechanic of Lyons, France, who first turned his attention to improving the ..."

4. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1862)
"... not relief,—and what philanthropists had sighed over in vain, was at last attained by a poor artisan, Joseph Marie Jacquard, " the child of the people, ..."

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