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Article: 35 years later, bar codes, and scanning, are everywhere.
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- Network World Middle East
- Article date:
- June 29, 2009
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Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff)
The 35th anniversary of the first time a laser scanner was used to "read" a bar code, according to Motorola.
The company has detailed a few of the pertinent facts from that day, including that the first scan occurred at 8:06 a.m., June 26, 1974, at a Marsh supermarket in Troy, Ohio. The bar code was imprinted on a 10-pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit gum.
There were bar-code patent applications going back to the early 1950s, but a bar code alone couldn't do much. Jerome Swartz, an electrical engineer, invented the laser scanner used for reading bar codes. He also co-founded Symbol Technologies, which is now part of Motorola ...