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unusual facts about bar code



Henry Faulds

The following month Sir William Herschel, a British civil servant based in India, wrote to Nature saying that he had been using fingerprints (as a form of bar code) to identify criminals since 1860.


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Charles Denham

He has collaborated with movie actor Dennis Quaid to accelerate the adoption of safety solutions such as bar-code technologies, and has produced the documentaries Chasing Zero: Winning the War on Healthcare Harm and Surfing the Healthcare Tsunami: Bring Your Best Board, both aired on the Discovery Channel.

Companhia Portuguesa de Hipermercados

The first ever hypermarket with bar code reading opens in Alfragide in 1988, while in the 1990s, more hypermarkets are open in Maia, Castelo Branco, Setúbal, Alverca, Santo Tirso, Gaia, Famalicão and Aveiro respectively.

Ignition SCADA

Current drivers include A-B Suite, ModbusTCP, Siemens Ethernet, and Simple TCP/UDP, allowing users to connect to a multitude of devices such as PLCs, solar cells, lights, generators, flow meters, bar code scanners, etc.

Inductive Automation

Current drivers include A-B Suite, ModbusTCP and Simple TCP/UDP, allowing users to connect to a multitude of devices such as PLCs, solar cells, lights, generators, flow meters, bar code scanners, etc.

Kim Sanders

In 2003, she released her debut album Pretty on Edge, which failed to enter the charts due to the record company placing the incorrect bar code on the album.

MIL-STD-130

- ATA (Air Transport Association) should mark all items in accordance with SPEC2000 for linear bar code symbols.

Since 2005, MIL-STD-130 is most noted for the UID data matrix, which is a square, pixelated bar code that when scanned connects the DoD user immediately to the record in the DoD UID Database.

Sufficiency of disclosure

In a 2005 U.S. court case, several of Jerome H. Lemelson patents covering bar code readers were held to be invalid because the specification was not complete enough for a person of ordinary skill in the art of electrical engineering to have made and used the claimed invention at the time the patent was filed (1954) without undue experimentation.