jan 1, 1804 - First Time Mass Production Is Automated

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By the 18th century in the united kingdom and France, weaving was a major labor-intensive industry. Inventors tried to make mass production automotive until in 1804 a French inventor Joseph-Marie Jacquard unveiled what would become the widely adopted “Jacquard Loom.” It worked by planting patterns from punch cards into commands that determined the lifting and lowering of threads, increasing the speed at which complex patterns could be woven by more than twenty times. From one feet to two feet a day, This is considered to be the first computer programming in this signficant event

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