Now, the reason they used punch cards was that Jacquard, in France, had created the Jacquard loom, which was weaving these incredible patterns controlled by punch cards, so he was just repurposing the technology of the day, and like everything else he did, he's using the technology of his era, so 1830s, 1840s, 1850s, cogs, steam, mechanical devices. Ironically, born the same year as Charles Babbage was Michael Faraday, who would completely revolutionize everything
'자키드식 문직기'라는 걸 만들었는데, 천공 카드로 문직기를 제어해 엄청나게 정교한 문양을 짜냈거든요 배비지는 그 기술을 재활용한 것 뿐입니다 그가 이룬 업적은 전부 당시 기술, 그러니까 1830, 1840, 1850년대의 톱니바퀴, 증기력 기계식 기계 등을 이용한 거죠 여기서 아이러니한 건, 배비지와 같은 해에 태어난 마이클 패러데이라는 사람은 발전기, 변압기같은 신기술을 이용해 대변혁을 이뤄냈다는 겁니다