N. Joseph Woodland, Inventor of the Bar Code, Dies at 91
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What would happen, Mr. Woodland wondered one day, if Morse code, with its elegant simplicity and limitless combinatorial potential, were adapted graphically? He began trailing his fingers idly through the sand.