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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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