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The History of Barcodes

Posted January 1st, 2009 by admin

The concept of using something like a bar code to identify objects didn’t really get going until the 1950s. In 1959, David Collins who worked for Sylvania began developing a system to identify train cars that used blue and yellow reflective stripes.
The Boston and Maine Railroad tested this on their gravel cars in 1961. [...]

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