List of Famous people with last name Bouchon

Basile Bouchon

First Name Basile

Last Name Bouchon

Born on November 30, 1699

Died on November 30, 1799 (aged 100)

Born in France, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Basile Bouchon was a textile worker in the silk center in Lyon who invented a way to control a loom with a perforated paper tape in 1725. The son of an organ maker, Bouchon partially automated the tedious setting up process of the drawloom in which an operator lifted the warp threads using cords.

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