From Punch Cards to Jpegs

Joseph-Marie Jacquard unveiled his revolutionary Jacquard loom around 1804. The loom used a system of punch cards to control the pattern of woven cloth automatically. Instead of manually lifting and lowering threads to create intricate designs, the loom used a series...

The Switch to Digital

In class this past week we have been discussing how television transitioned from analog signal to digital in 2009. Being born in 2001, I remember being a kid and having an analog TV. It had the “Rabbit Ears” on the top and we would have to adjust them...