Motorway e jacquard loom: o que têm em comum

1. Passo 1. Motorway — é um tipo de — Paved road. A road.
2. Passo 2. Paved road — é feito de — Stone. Paved roads were laid with stone.
3. Passo 3. Stone — é material para — Selo cilíndrico. Seals were carved from stone.
4. Passo 4. Selo cilíndrico — funciona como — Gutenberg printing press. An analogy: both a seal and a press reproduce a pre-carved pattern.
5. Passo 5. Gutenberg printing press — funciona como — Jacquard loom. An analogy, not proven influence: both set type and a chain of punched cards are a replaceable pattern that a machine reproduces over and over.

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