Noria and gutenberg printing press: what they have in common

1. Step 1. Noria — uses — Water wheel. The current itself turns the wheel.
2. Step 2. Water wheel — is part of — Trip hammer. The shaft was turned by a water wheel.
3. Step 3. Trip hammer — has part — Cam. Cams on the shaft lift the hammer.
4. Step 4. Cam — is part of — Automaton. Cams set the figures’ movements.
5. Step 5. Automaton — inspired — Jacquard loom. Vaucanson, the maker of automata, built an automatic loom whose ideas Jacquard used.
6. Step 6. Jacquard loom — works like — Gutenberg printing press. 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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