Norman Joseph Woodland

Norman Joseph Woodland (born September 6, 1921) is best known as one of the inventors of the barcode, for which he received US Patent 2,612,994 in October 1952. He is also known as N. Joseph Woodland and N.J. Woodland. Woodland was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey the elder of two boys. After graduating from Atlantic City High School, Woodland went on to earn his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering (BSME) from Drexel University in 1947. During his military service in WWII, Woodland worked as a technical assistant with the Manhattan Project in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. From 1948-1949, Woodland worked as a lecturer in mechanical engineering at Drexel. In 1948 Bernard Silver, a fellow Drexel Institute of Technology grad student with...