On October 7, 1952 US Patent #2,612,994 was issued to inventors Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver for creating the barcode.
Ref: http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blbar_code.htm
This past October 7th, Google created a barcode of their logo to commemorate the anniversary.
A student Bernie overheard a conversation and told his teacher Woodland about it and he experimented and he invented the bar code using morse code.
Bar code stores numbers only,but QR code can be store be with any multimedia.
Rene descartes invented bar graphs you can find more about him in the book."A flyon the celieng."
Disregard the first and last bar, they mark the beginning and end of the bar code. Each digit in a bar code is made up of 2 tall and 3 short bars, starting with the second bar read 5 bars as 7,4,2,1,0. which ever numbers has the tall bars add them to get the first digit of the bar code. 7 and 4 is 0.
The first product to have a bar code included was a packet of Wrigley's Gum.
to be scanned
A student Bernie overheard a conversation and told his teacher Woodland about it and he experimented and he invented the bar code using morse code.
invented in 1952
It would be the date the product was produced or canned.
bar code
Bernard Silver;Norman Joseph Woodland. Both of them.
Lot #21100
the use by date company name and bar code that is all
It was invented in a hershey's bar company
Snickers Bar was invented in 1930.
=Answer:==the first bar code was invented by Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver. On October 7, 1952 they were granted a patent for it.=
they did not need one, as the devices to read the barcodes had not been invented yet.