October 7, 2009 | By Sum Agency
Happy B-day Barcode
Posted in: Random

Today's new doodle from Google marks the 57th anniversary of the day the first patent was made on the barcode. Granted to American inventors Norman Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver three years after it was filed, patent number 2,612,994 was for a pattern of concentric circles, rather than the set of straight lines used today...
Read the rest of the article from Telegraph.co.uk, here.
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