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Jacques De Vaucanson
1709-1782
French inventor and engineer who developed a device that enabled silk to be woven into cloth. Previous automatic machines had been too clumsy to work with silk, a fragil...
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Jacques de Vaucanson was a prolific inventor who made many contributions to the Industrial Revolution. Born at Grenoble, France, in 1709, he showed an early interest in machinery. He was educated at t...
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Jacques De Vaucanson
Jacques de Vaucanson
