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Posted December 19, 2007 by Will Hughes

Atlantic City native Norman Joseph Woodland was inspired in 1948 to create a two-dimensional Morse code to convey product information in grocery stores. He and fellow Drexel University graduate student Bernard Silver patented the idea, which became feasible in the 1970s.

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