By John Liberty, Dillyn Scott, Rachel Beatty
We are students at University of Mary Washington in a class called History of American Technology and Culture. For this class we were assigned to select a technological artifact that had a significant effect on American society. For this assignment we chose Barcodes. Barcodes are something that go unnoticed in many of our daily lives, … Read more
The first physical representation of the barcode was drawn by Norman Joseph Woodland as lines in the sand on Miami Beach. He was in search of a code that would both speed up checkout services and simplify stocktaking and inventory management. Interestingly enough, Woodland was inspired by Morse Code he had learned in Boy Scouts: … Read more