Editing Joseph Marie Jacquard (section)

{{Short description|French weaver, merchant, and inventor (1752–1834)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name               = Joseph Marie Jacquard
| image              = Joseph Marie Jacquard.jpg
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| birth_name         = 
| birth_date         = {{birth-date|7 July 1752}}
| death_date         = {{death date and age|1834|08|07|1752|07|07|df=y}}
| birth_place        = [[Lyon]], [[Lyonnais]], [[Kingdom of France]]
| death_place        = [[Oullins]], [[Rhône (department)|Rhône]], [[July Monarchy|Kingdom of France]]
| death_cause        = 
| resting_place      = 
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| nationality        = French
| other_names        = 
| known_for          = [[Jacquard loom|Programmable loom]]
| education          = Worked as apprentice and learned bookbinding
| employer           = 
| occupation         = Merchant, weaver, inventor
| signature          = Joseph Marie Charles Jacquard, inventeur, signature.jpg
}}

'''Joseph Marie Charles''' ''dit'' (called or nicknamed) '''Jacquard''' ({{IPA|fr|ʒakaʁ|lang}}; 7 July 1752 – 7 August 1834) was a [[French people|French]] weaver and merchant. He played an important role in the development of the earliest programmable loom (the "[[Jacquard loom]]"), which in turn played an important role in the development of other programmable machines, such as an early version of digital compiler used by [[IBM]] to develop the modern day [[computer]].