Norman Woodland; Inventor of the barcode
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Joseph_Woodland
He drew dots and dashes in the sand similar to the shapes used in Morse code. After pulling them downward with his fingers, producing thin lines resulting from the dots and thick lines from the dashes, he came up with the concept of a two-dimensional, linear Morse code.
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