Although the first patent that resembled a bar code was filed in 1952, the first barcode scanning equipment wasn't created in the lab until 1966, and commercially available until 1970. Without a standard as we know it today though, bar codes were not adopted. In 1973 George Laurer invented the UPC Bar Code system, which is still used in the United States today. On June 26, 1974, the first grocery store to have bar code reading equipment went online in Ohio. The first item scanned was a 10-pack of Wrigley's Fruit Juice gum.
The industrial use of bar codes can be traced back as far as the 1960s, in some cases as a means to identify railroad cars. Common linear bar codes started appearing on grocery shelves in the early 1970s as the UPC (Universal Product Code) bar code to automate the process of identifying grocery items.
It was invented in 1952 by Norman Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver
On a box of cereal
You can find them on the back of the packaging.
Those newer bar codes are still bar codes, but they are 2-dimensional bar codes, and we call them quick response(QR) codes.
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Countries do not have bar codes. They may have calling codes, or postal codes, internationally recognised. Bar codes are usually for items on retail sale.
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if you have an ipod you can download an app that will scan bar codes and it will tell you.
Bar codes no longer need specialized equipment to read them. Your smartphone has many apps that can read bar codes. There are apps where you can learn about the many types of bar codes and even generate and print bar codes of your own.
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Bar codes are used so that businesses can track their inventory. Once bar coded, businesses can track products in their warehouse.
Bar codes were originally used in space when they had to scan it on their way out of the space craft so the ISS would know exactly when they left and when they came back in and exactly how long they have been out.
Bar codes have a meaning because the meaning of a bar code is assigned to that bar code. A bar code identifies an item, and product information regarding that item is held in a data base.
the new use of bar codes as a method of product identification