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Comment on N. Joseph Woodland, Inventor of the Bar Code, Dies at 91

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Had Mr. Woodland not been a Boy Scout, had he not logged hours on the beach and had his father not been quite so afraid of organized crime, the code would very likely not have been invented in the form it was, if at all.

...As a Boy Scout he learned Morse code, the spark that would ignite his invention....

-- Interesting note on the origin of invention.

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