US821781A - Playing-cards

The origin of playing cards is, like many things, buried in the dark of history passed down The first playing cards presumably emerged in the old Pharaohs

US821781A - Playing-cards  Playing cards were first invented in Imperial China The origin of playing cards can be traced back to the Tang dynasty in the 9th century AD in China From

The origin of playing cards is, like many things, buried in the dark of history passed down The first playing cards presumably emerged in the old Pharaohs

who runs the national lottery The first cards were likely invented during the Tang Dynasty with the invention of paper and woodblock printing A reference

PLAYING cards were invented by the Chinese before AD1000 They reached Europe around 1360, not directly from China but from the Mameluke empire

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Joseph Marie Jacquard, a French textile merchant in Lyons, invented a punched card system in 1804 to effectively automate his weaving looms Up