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N. Joseph Woodland, Inventor of the Bar Code, Dies at 91 Terrence Dorsey13-Dec-12 9:54 Terrence Dorsey 13-Dec-12 9:54  NYTimes.com[^]: A retired mechanical engineer, Mr. Woodland was a graduate student when he and a classmate, Bernard Silver, created a technology — based on a printed series of wide and narrow striations — that encoded consumer-product information for optical scanning. Their idea, developed in the late 1940s and patented 60 years ago this fall, turned out to be ahead of its time. But it would ultimately give rise to the universal product code, or U.P.C., as the staggeringly prevalent rectangular bar code is officially known. | || | | | | || || | Re: N. Joseph Woodland, Inventor of the Bar Code, Dies at 91 Brisingr Aerowing13-Dec-12 15:32 Brisingr Aerowing 13-Dec-12 15:32  RIP Bob Dole The internet is a great way to get on the net. 2.0.82.7292 SP6a

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