Beep-bop. The sound of the supermarket checkout – a noise Morrisons felt the need to mute after the Queen’s death – is made possible by an invention which turns 70 this week: the barcode.
On 7 October 1952, a patent was granted to American inventors Bernard Silver and Norman Woodland.
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