Basile Bouchon
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Basile Bouchon was a textile worker in the silk center in Lyon who invented a way to control a loom with a perforated paper roll in 1725. The son of an organ maker, Bouchon partially automated the tedious setting up process of the drawloom in which an operator lifted the warp threads using cords.
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Type
Scientist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1700 to 1800 · aged 100
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