Automata

    Please answer these questions in paragraph form using my included article, and outside sources. Please paraphrase instead of quotation marks. Please make it about 800 words long.    

A line of developments connects the experimental automata to industrial automata and
programmable machines.
a) Describe major developments in history of automata in the 17th and 18th centuries.
b) Describe the connection between automata and textile industry.

c) Describe developments in automata which led to programmable machines using punch
cards