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To: Drew68

Here’s who Johan Pulitzer is. He’s the guy who invented the barcode scanning for the retail market. Every time you check out somewhere think of him. You need to get a brain.


18 posted on 01/04/2021 11:56:12 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Georgia Girl 2
He’s the guy who invented the barcode scanning for the retail market.

No. He invented CueCat.


24 posted on 01/04/2021 12:09:21 PM PST by Drew68
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To: Georgia Girl 2
Here’s who Johan Pulitzer is. He’s the guy who invented the barcode scanning for the retail market. Every time you check out somewhere think of him. You need to get a brain.

And you need to do some research. The basic concept of the bar code was patented by Norman Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver in 1949. UPC codes were first introduced to retailers in 1973 when Pulitzer was ten years old.

32 posted on 01/04/2021 12:25:43 PM PST by Bubba Ho-Tep ("The rat always knows when he's in with weasels."--Tom Waits)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Bravo sierra! See Jerome Lemelson!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielfisher/2012/12/14/the-patent-troll-you-dont-read-about-in-bar-code-inventors-obituaries/?sh=3936bdc17388


41 posted on 01/04/2021 1:57:40 PM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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