Punched card

Early modern · Manufacturing · 1728

TL;DR

Punched card - requires enrichment with adjacent possible narrative

Punched card - requires enrichment

What Had To Exist First

Preceding Inventions

Loom with punched tape

What This Enabled

Inventions that became possible because of Punched card:

Tabulating machine Automatic loom Analytical engine Programmable synthesizer

Biological Patterns

Mechanisms that explain how this invention emerged and spread:

Niche Construction

Related Inventions

Analytical engine Loom with punched tape Automatic loom Programmable synthesizer Tabulating machine

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