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MLA Full: "The Grandfather of the Computer was the Loom." YouTube, uploaded by SciShow, 6 March 2025, www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERqi9EfswKQ.
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Chicago Full: SciShow, "The Grandfather of the Computer was the Loom.", March 6, 2025, YouTube, 08:17,
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In the early 19th century, a French weaver named Joseph-Marie Jacquard was searching for a better way to make fabric. And in so doing, he managed to invent a loom that inspired the first proper computer.



















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