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Archive Home > 2012 > December > 14 > Woodland invented modern bar code

Woodland invented modern bar code

By Margalit Fox / The Bulletin
December 14, 2012

Joseph Woodland, who six decades ago drew a set of lines in the sand and in the process conceived the modern bar code, died Sunday at his home in Edgewater, N.J. He was 91.

His daughter Susan Woodland confirmed the death.

A retired mechanical engineer, Woodland was a graduate student when he and....

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