BBC Radio Scotland MW BBC Radio Scotland MW December 10, 2019 080000
The engineer who helped develop the bar code has died at the age of 94 George Lauder scanner was 1st used in the mid 1970 s. Charles Havilland reports it was while working as an electrical engineer with i.b.m. That George Laura fully developed the barcode later he would recall how in the early 1970 s. Grocery shops faced mounting costs and the labor intensive need to put price tags on everything the barcode along with the scanner that Laura also developed meant a few appraising arrows and easier accounting the 1st product scanned in Ohio in June 1984 was a packet of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit chew...