George J. Laurer, whose design of the vertically striped bar code sped supermarket checkout lines, parcel deliveries and assembly lines and even transformed humans, including airline passengers and hospital patients, into traceable inventory items, died Dec. 5 at his home in Wendell, North Carolina, near Raleigh. He was 94. His death was confirmed by his […]
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