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Invention is not Innovation- history of barcode lays the significance of the statement. The necessity of the inventory tracking technology especially in grocery retail led to the invention of barcodes! But it’s the innovation which made a simple idea of data collection techniques forged a way for a billion-dollar industry.
The idea of Barcode can be traced in 1948, when Norman Joe Woodland and Bernie silver from Drexel Institute in Philadelphia created the first prototype for a linear barcode using combination of Morse code- a series of dots and dashes (used in telegraph and radio communications) represented by extending the lines to write first linear barcode and Movie sound track Technologies- to read the barcode.
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