FORTUNE Magazine features a story congratulating a happy 35th birthday to the barcode.
Joe Woodland is the mind behind it all. He had the wonderful idea down in South Beach, Miami, in 1941. Woodson was an ambitious engineer-thought of this wonderful invention that we still use today at the age of 27. Ringing up prices manually was slow, expensive, and rife with errors--please click the link below to review the story.
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/05/31/370719/index.htm
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BARCODE!
Joe Woodland is the mind behind it all. He had the wonderful idea down in South Beach, Miami, in 1941. Woodson was an ambitious engineer-thought of this wonderful invention that we still use today at the age of 27. Ringing up prices manually was slow, expensive, and rife with errors--please click the link below to review the story.
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/05/31/370719/index.htm
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BARCODE!
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