Suspension and gutenberg printing press: what they have in common

1. Step 1. Suspension — has part — Spring. Springs are the elastic element of the suspension.
2. Step 2. Spring — is part of — Automaton. The mainspring stores the energy.
3. Step 3. Automaton — inspired — Jacquard loom. Vaucanson, the maker of automata, built an automatic loom whose ideas Jacquard used.
4. Step 4. 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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