Bernard Silver
Bernard Silver (September 21, 1924 – August 28, 1963) was an early developer of barcode technology alongside Norman Joseph Woodland. Silver earned his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Drexel Institute of Technology in 1947. In 1948 Silver paired with Norman Joseph Woodland to come up with an automated way to read product data after overhearing the conversation of a local grocery store president. Their initial results, a system of lines and circles based on Morse code, was replaced with a bulls eye pattern so it could be scanned from any direction. Silver and Woodland filed a patent for their system on October 20, 1949. U.S. Patent 2,612,994 was granted on October 7, 1952. "The two men eventually sold their patent to Philco for $15,000 — all they ever made from their i
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Bernard Silver
Bernard Silver (September 21, 1924 – August 28, 1963) was an early developer of barcode technology alongside Norman Joseph Woodland. Silver earned his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Drexel Institute of Technology in 1947. In 1948 Silver paired with Norman Joseph Woodland to come up with an automated way to read product data after overhearing the conversation of a local grocery store president. Their initial results, a system of lines and circles based on Morse code, was replaced with a bulls eye pattern so it could be scanned from any direction. Silver and Woodland filed a patent for their system on October 20, 1949. U.S. Patent 2,612,994 was granted on October 7, 1952. "The two men eventually sold their patent to Philco for $15,000 — all they ever made from their i
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Bernard Silver (* 21. Septembe ...... tional Inventors Hall of Fame.
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Bernard Silver (21 septembre 1 ...... tés de Norman Joseph Woodland.
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Roosevelt Memorial Park, Trevose, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
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Bernard Silver (* 21. Septembe ...... . Silver starb vorzeitig bei e
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Bernard Silver (21 septembre 1 ...... tés de Norman Joseph Woodland.
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برنارد سيلفر (بالإنجليزية: Ber ...... 1924، وتوفي في 28 أغسطس 1963.
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