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The History of the Bar Code

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Gavin Weightman
Smithsonian Magazine, September 23, 201

Two Drexel University graduates came up with the idea for the bar code and obtained a patent for it in 1952. It took more  technical development, including the laser, and the involvement of several major corporations, to lead up to the first real-life test of the first automated checkstand at the Kroger Kenwood Plaza store in Cincinnati on July 3, 1972.

Read the full story here:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/history-bar-code-180956704/

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