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    Joe Woodland invented the bar code in 1949 when the manager of a supermarket asked him to design an electronic checkout system that was simple and effective. The bar code uses parallel lines of regular width and longer lines that contain coded information about a product, which potentially speeds up recording sales and restocking shelves. While ahead of its time, it was not until the arrival of laser gun technology decades later that the bar code found practical application and everyday use.

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    Joe Woodland invented the bar code in 1949 when the manager of a supermarket asked him to design an electronic checkout system that was simple and effective. The bar code uses parallel lines of regular width and longer lines that contain coded information about a product, which potentially speeds up recording sales and restocking shelves. While ahead of its time, it was not until the arrival of laser gun technology decades later that the bar code found practical application and everyday use.

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    Joe Woodland invented the bar code in 1949 when the manager of a supermarket asked him to design an electronic checkout system that was simple and effective. The bar code uses parallel lines of regular width and longer lines that contain coded information about a product, which potentially speeds up recording sales and restocking shelves. While ahead of its time, it was not until the arrival of laser gun technology decades later that the bar code found practical application and everyday use.

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    The inventor of bar code

    Although you may never have heard of Joe Woodland, you almost certainly use his invention on a _ _
    (DAY). For Joe was the man who came up with the idea of the bar code - that little box containing
    parallel lines of _ _ (REGULAR) width and _ _ (LONG) that you find on the packaging of most products
    that are offered for sale at retail _ _ (LET) worldwide. Joe Woodland actually invented the bar code way
    back in 1949, when the _ _ (MANAGE) of a supermarket in Philadelphia asked him to design an
    electronic _ _ (CHECK) system which would be both simple and effective. The purpose of the bar code is
    to store _ _ (CODED) information about the product, which _ _ (POTENTIAL) speeds up the process of
    recording sales and _ _ (STOCK) the shelves. The idea was way ahead of its time however, and didn't find
    any immediate practical _ _ (APPLY) . It was the _ _ (ARRIVE) of laser gun technology decades later which
    allowed Joe's invention to come into everyday use.

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