BARCODE
INVENTION
Root:
The development of barcode rooted from comments by a food chain president to a university dean at the Drexel Institute of Technology, Philadelphia. The company wanted some sort of
system to collect the product information at the checkout automatically and this
issue was overhead by Bernard Silver a graduate student. Then Silver and his
friend Norman Woodland decided to pursue a solution.
Adoption:
The pair turned a combination
of movie sound track technology invented by Lee De Forest in the 1920s and
Morse code dots and dashes.
These two just extended
the dots and dashes downward and made narrow lines and wide lines out of the Morse
code and this statement gave by Woodland.
Pattern of working:
De Forest’s film
included a varying transparency pattern on its edge. When a light shined
through it, sensing equipment on other side translates the change of brightness
into electronic waveform that turned into sound signals. Woodland adopted this
system reflecting light of his wide and narrow lines and coupling the sensor to
oscilloscope. Finally they invented the first electronic reader of printed
data.
a)linear barcode
b)2D barcode
Source:
1001 INVENTIONS THAT
CHANGED THE WORLD-Preface by Trevor Baylis and General Editor Jack Challoner.
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