As we all know, Watt’s invention of the improved steam engine led to the first industrial revolution, making Britain embark on the road of modern capitalism, from a small island in the corner of Europe into a sunset world power.

  In this industrial revolution, besides the steam engine, there was another machine that also played a very important role. It is the braiding machine that we see everywhere now.

  On the eve of the industrial revolution, the British industry and commerce is very developed, with the pursuit of quality of life, cotton products in short supply, the original braiding machine efficiency is low, has been unable to meet people’s needs. How to make the machine’s textile efficiency greatly improved become a problem. As a traction power, the water mill solved the efficiency of braiding machine in the regions along the river, but most of the inland areas still used primitive manual weaving. It was this strong demand that gave birth to the steam engine, leading to the first industrial revolution.

  Not only the first industrial revolution, the braiding machine also had a huge impact on the idea of computer programming. At that time, all patterned cloth was woven with wrap threads (vertical threads) and weft threads (horizontal threads), and in order to weave a pattern, the weaver had to follow a pre-designed pattern, repeatedly “lifting” a part of the warp threads with the human hand in the appropriate position in order to let the sliding shuttles pull different colors of weft threads to pass through, and the efficiency of the weaving was very low. In 1725, the French textile mechanic B. Bouchon. Joe (B. Bouchon) came up with a “perforated paper tape” brilliant idea. Bouchon first managed to use a row of knitting needles to control the movement of all the warp threads, and then take a roll of paper tape, according to the pattern of a row of small holes, and press it on the knitting needles. After starting the machine, the knitting needles directly opposite the holes can go through to hook up the warp threads, the other is blocked by the paper tape does not move. Thus, the knitting needle automatically in accordance with the pre-designed pattern to select the warp threads, Bujiao's “thoughts” “passed” to the braiding machine, the knitting pattern “program” will be The “program” for the knitting pattern was “stored” in the holes of the perforated paper tape. The real success of the improvement came 80 years later, when another French mechanic, J. Jacquard, completed the design of the “Automatic Jacquard Braiding Machine” around 1801.

  Later, this “programming” technique formed the prototype of modern computer programming.

Unhesitatingly the braiding machine is small, this small braiding machine does pull the world to take a big step. Benfa braiding machine as a hose braiding machine industry standard-setting enterprises, will also give this machine a new aura.