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Jacquard machine, an Uncommon card
The Jacquard machine is a device fitted to a loom that simplifies the process of manufacturing textiles with such complex patterns as brocade, damask and matelassé.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 65
- DEF
- 54
- Power
- 119
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 83,000
Power 119 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Jacquard machine quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Jacquard machine card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The ______ ensemble of the loom and Jacquard machine is then called a Jacquard loom.
Answer
resulting. The resulting ensemble of the loom and Jacquard machine is then called a Jacquard loom. From the Jacquard machine article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
The machine was patented by Joseph Marie Jacquard in ____, based on earlier inventions by the Frenchmen Basile Bouchon, Jean Baptiste Falcon, and Jacques Vaucanson.
Answer
1800s. The machine was patented by Joseph Marie Jacquard in 1804, based on earlier inventions by the Frenchmen Basile Bouchon, Jean Baptiste Falcon, and Jacques Vaucanson. From the Jacquard machine article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
List of counties in Maryland. List of counties in Maryland 71 · Velocity 68 · Jacquard machine 65 · Earth's orbit 62 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The resulting ensemble of the loom and Jacquard machine is then called a Jacquard loom.
- The machine was patented by Joseph Marie Jacquard in 1804, based on earlier inventions by the Frenchmen Basile Bouchon, Jean Baptiste Falcon, and Jacques Vaucanson.
- The machine was controlled by a "chain of cards", a number of punched cards laced together into a continuous sequence.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Jacquard machine article was read about 83,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 65 and blocks with 54: each hit it takes is cut by 22 %.
How to get Jacquard machine
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Jacquard machine (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Michel Marie Carquillat (tisseur) d'après Claude Bonnefond, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
