The steam engine designed by Scottish engineer ... Thomas Allom's painting of power loom weavers in a textile factory, 1834. Edmund Cartwright was destined for a career as a clergyman in the ...

Joseph-Marie Jacquard invents an automatic loom controlled by punch cards. Charles Babbage conceives of a "Difference Engine" in 1820 or 1821. It is a massive steam-powered mechanical calculator ...