

The Inventor of the Bar Code
Although you may never have heard of Joe Woodland, you almost certainly use his invention on a (0) ......daily............ basis. For Joe was the man who came up with the idea of
the bar code - that little box containing parallel lines of (1) ...................... width and (2) ...................... that you find on the packaging of most products that are offered for sale at retail (3) ......................worldwide. Joe Woodland actually invented the bar code way back in 1949, when the manager of a supermarket in Philadelphia asked him to design an electronic
(4) ......................system which would be both simple and effective. The purpose of the bar code is to store (5) ......................information about the product, which (6) .....................speeds up the process of recording sales and restocking the shelves. Joe's (7) ......................came from Morse code and he formed his first barcode in the sand on the beach one day. The idea was way ahead of its time however, and didn't find any immediate practical (8) ......................Convinced that the system was (9) .....................with further development, however, Woodland didn't give up. It was the (10) ......................of laser gun technology decades later which allowed Joe's invention to come into everyday use.
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Although you may never have heard of Joe Woodland, you almost certainly use his invention on a (0) ......daily............ basis. For Joe was the man who came up with the idea of
the bar code - that little box containing parallel lines of (1) ...................... width and (2) ...................... that you find on the packaging of most products that are offered for sale at retail (3) ......................worldwide. Joe Woodland actually invented the bar code way back in 1949, when the manager of a supermarket in Philadelphia asked him to design an electronic
(4) ......................system which would be both simple and effective. The purpose of the bar code is to store (5) ......................information about the product, which (6) .....................speeds up the process of recording sales and restocking the shelves. Joe's (7) ......................came from Morse code and he formed his first barcode in the sand on the beach one day. The idea was way ahead of its time however, and didn't find any immediate practical (8) ......................Convinced that the system was (9) .....................with further development, however, Woodland didn't give up. It was the (10) ......................of laser gun technology decades later which allowed Joe's invention to come into everyday use.
DAY
REGULAR
LONG
LET
CHECK
CODED
POTENTIAL
INSPIRE
APPLY
WORK
ARRIVE
1..........................2..........................3...........................4...........................5......................
6..........................7..........................8...........................9...........................10.....................