First Data Storage Mechanism mid 1700s to early 1800s Basile Bouchon used perforated paper in a loom to establish the pattern to be reproduced on cloth in 1725. Jean Falcon worked with Bouchon and changed the perforated paper to a chain of punched cards to change the program more quickly in 1728. Jacques Vaucanson invented a more automaticed loom that used a perforated cylinder mechanism that guided hooks connected to the warp yarns in 1740. Joseph Marie Jacquard adapted Falcon and Vaucanson's inventions and created a device that used the holes punched in pasteboard punch cards to control the weaving of patterns in fabric to be mounted on top of a treadle-operation loom in1801. the Industrial Revolution started in England in the 1730s with the first cotton mill. The introduction of punched card looms caused riots against the replacement of people by machines. The Declaration of Independence was approved by the continental Congress on July 4, 1776. The French Revolution took place, 1789-1799. The punch card loom was first used in teh United States in 1825 by William Horstmann for weaving coach laces.   Photo of Joseph Jacquard, & picture of woven silk produced on a Jacquard loom, courtesy of http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk Punched Card, courtesy of Teh CompuDudes, http://www2.compududes.com/museumimages/jacquardloom.htm Jacquard loom engraving, courtesy of Britannica, http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/0/0,5716,44190+1+43217,00.html Photo of Jacquard Loom, courtesy of Virginia Tech, http://www.ce.vt.edu/evd/Htmls/P415420.html Samantha Long