Monthly Archives: December 2012
Round Up of 2012
31 Dec 2012As we are fast approaching the end of another year we would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our customers who helped make another successful year at A1 Solutions possible. In this current economic climate with so many companies not making it to the end of the year we are extremely thankful
Inventor of the Barcode Dies aged 91
10 Dec 2012Norman Joseph Woodland, who co-created the barcode, has died at his New Jersey home at the age of 91. Woodland worked with university classmate Bernard Silver to create the now ubiquitous thick-and-thin-line system in the 1940s. The system was patented in the US in 1952, a patent that was later sold for just $15,000 (£9,300).