Norman Joseph Woodland was born in Atlantic City on Sept. 6, 1921. As a Boy Scout he learned Morse code, the spark that would ignite his invention.
諾曼·約瑟夫·伍德蘭(Norman Joseph Woodland)于1921年9月6日出生在亞特蘭大。參加童子軍時，他曾學(xué)習(xí)過摩斯密碼，這為他日后的發(fā)明提供了靈感的火花。
After spending World War II on the Manhattan Project , Mr. Woodland resumed his studies at the Drexel Institute of Technology in Philadelphia (it is now Drexel University), earning a bachelor’s degree in 1947.
第二次世界大戰(zhàn)期間，伍德蘭先生參與了“曼哈頓計(jì)劃”，戰(zhàn)后在費(fèi)城的德雷克賽爾理工學(xué)院繼續(xù)學(xué)業(yè)，1947年獲得學(xué)士學(xué)位。
As an undergraduate, Mr. Woodland perfected a system for delivering elevator music efficiently. He planned to pursue the project commercially, but his father, who had come of age in “Boardwalk Empire”-era Atlantic City, forbade it: elevator music, he said, was controlled by the mob, and no son of his was going to come within spitting distance.
大學(xué)本科期間，伍德蘭先生對電梯音樂系統(tǒng)(背景音樂系統(tǒng))進(jìn)行了優(yōu)化，并計(jì)劃將這一項(xiàng)目商業(yè)化，但遭到父親的反對。他的父親在“大西洋帝國”時期的亞特蘭大市長大，他說電梯音樂是暴民們玩的行當(dāng)，絕不允許他的孩子涉足這一行業(yè)。
The younger Mr. Woodland returned to Drexel for a master’s degree. In 1948, a local supermarket executive visited the campus, where he implored a dean to develop an efficient means of encoding product data. The dean demurred, but Mr. Silver, a fellow graduate student who overheard their conversation, was intrigued. He conscripted Mr. Woodland.
于是，伍德蘭先生只得回到德雷克賽爾理工學(xué)院繼續(xù)攻讀碩士學(xué)位。1948年，當(dāng)?shù)匾患页械母吖軄韺W(xué)院參觀時，他向院長提出一個請求，希望學(xué)院能研發(fā)一種高效的產(chǎn)品數(shù)據(jù)編碼系統(tǒng)，院長婉拒了這一請求，不過當(dāng)時也在就讀研究生的希爾沃先生偷聽到了他們的談話，對這一項(xiàng)目很感興趣，于是邀請伍德蘭先生一起進(jìn)行研發(fā)。
An early idea of theirs, which involved printing product information in fluorescent ink and reading it with ultraviolet light, proved unworkable.
他們最初的想法是用熒光墨打印產(chǎn)品信息，然后通過紫外光讀取信息，可事實(shí)證明這種想法并不可行。
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