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113:(February 11, 1936 – March 12, 2022) was an inventor and businessman whose career was focused on bringing barcode technology into the mainstream. While at Sylvania in 1960, he led a team that developed the first functional barcode system for tracking railroad cars, and subsequently worked on developing laser barcode systems.
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General Trading Company plant in Carlstadt, NJ to track and assemble grocery orders. It scanned boxes on a conveyor belt so they could be diverted to the appropriate loading dock. In 1971, Computer Identics delivered the first scanners used for package recognition, early versions
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153:(ACI). KarTrak used blue and red reflective stripes, as well as black and white stripes attached to the side of railroad cars, encoding a six-digit company identifier and a four-digit car number. At the peak, 95 percent of rail cars had a KarTrak code on the side.
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Rolling stock utilization and financing act of 1973. Hearings before the
Special Subcommittee on Freight Car Shortages of the Committee on Commerce, United States Senate, Ninety-third Congress, first session, on S. 1149
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Congress Senate Committee on Commerce, Special Freight Car Shortage Subcommittee (1972). "Freight Car Shortages: Hearings Before the Special Subcommittee on Freight Car Shortages of the Committee on
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In 1961, Collins left
Sylvania to start the Computer Identics Corporation with a goal of creating a laser scanner capable of reading small barcode labels as seen today.
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1993 – The J. Stanley
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in 1957 with a
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he developed the industry standard application identifier (AI) dictionary that classifies data collection formats.
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2011 – US Congressional Citation for his role as the "Father of the Barcode Industry"
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David Jarrett Collins was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended
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Flynn, Sean (2011-06-14). "Bar Code Founder Honored for his Vision 50 Years Ago".
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Collins, David Jarrett (2017-11). "The Father of the Barcode". TedXBeaconStreet
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