The use of a continuous roll of paper with punched perforations to control a loom was invented in 1725 by Basile Bouchon. Then in 1745 Jacques de Vaucanson invented the first fully automated loom using punch cards which unfortunately was not well received at the time - perhaps due to pushback over the automation making the draw boy role redundant - and it wasn't until after his death that Jacquard reintroduced the idea alongside other improvements and was a success. de Vaucanson also invented the chain drive and slide lathe apparently, he was all about automation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_de_Vaucanson
Funnily enough the Smithsonian doesn't mention his invention in their article on him:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/eighteenth-century...
Historians that I have encountered all say early 1800s for punch cards. For example the Smithsonian: https://www.si.edu/spotlight/punch-cards. Are you confusing those with earlier developments in textiles?
I also doubt your claim about when the industrial revolution started. Historians do differ on when the industrial revolution started. But you normally see figures in second half of the 1700s. For example they might cite James Watts' improvements to the steam engine in 1778.
For early 1700s you might be thinking of the steam engine, which was already in use. But the early steam engines were extremely inefficient. Their only real use case was for pumping water out of coal mines where both coal and water were available. The coal itself was being mined for use in fireplaces to keep people warm in the winter, because the forests had been cut down so there was no wood available.