Inventor of bar code dies at 91

December 14, 2012 17:31

The inventor of the bar code, that originated six decades ago and revolutionised product labelling, has died at the age of 91.

The product originated on a beach when a mechanical-engineer-in-training named Norman Joseph Woodland, with a transformative stroke of his fingers, yielding a set of literal lines in the sand, conceived the modern bar code.

Woodland died on Sunday after suffering from the effect of Alzheimer's disease and complications of his advanced age in his home in Edgewater, New Jersey, the New York Times reported.

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