Engineers whose defining technological contribution is a machine or process for producing cloth or fiber. Belongs here: Joseph Marie Jacquard for the Jacquard loom's punched-card pattern control, a direct ancestor of programmable machine control outside textiles as well as within them. Does not belong here: general mechanical devices that happen to use woven or fiber components, grouped under Mechanical or Materials Engineering.
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1. Wikipedia: Engineering
WikipediaIntroduction, traditional disciplinesQuote, Introduction, traditional disciplines
The traditional disciplines of engineering are civil, mechanical, electrical, and chemical.
2. Wikipedia: Textile manufacturing
WikipediaHistory, 18th-19th century mechanizationQuote, History, 18th-19th century mechanization
Until the 18th and 19th centuries, the textile industry was a household work. It became mechanised in the 18th and 19th centuries, and has continued to develop through science and technology since the twentieth century.
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