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Forrest Corry Parry (July 4, 1915 December 31, 2005) was the IBM engineer who invented the Magnetic stripe card used for Credit cards and identification badges.[1]
Parry was born in St. George, Utah to Edward H. Parry and Marguerite C. Parry. Forrest attened the Branch Agricultural College (BAC) now Southern Utah University, in Cedar City before entering the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md, in 1942. He graduated from the Naval Academy in June 1945. When the Korean War began in 1950, Parry served on the USS Walke as First Lieutenant and Damage Control Officer. After the Walke was hit by a torpedo or floating mine which killed 26 sailors and wounded 40, Parry was awarded a Bronze Star with Valor.
Contents
1 Career
2 Publications of Forrest Parry
3 See also
4 References
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Career
After leaving the Navy in 1952, Parry went to work at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and married Dorothea Tillia. They raised 5 children. Parry left Livermore in 1954 to work for Dow Chemical and then at Unette Corporation, a small plastic packaging firm.
In May 1957, Parry began his 30-year career with IBM, mostly in Rochester, Minnesota. While at IBM, he developed devices and systems for high speed printers, optical character readers, Universal Product Code (UPC) checkout systems, and Advanced Optical Character Reader (AOCR) which reads addresses from mailed letters and reprints it as bar codes for easy sorting at post offices.
In 1960, while at IBM, Parry invented the magnetic stripe card for use by the U.S. Government. He had the idea of gluing short pieces of magnetic tape to each plastic card, but the glue warped the tape. After returning home, Parry told his wife Dorothea about his problem. She was using a flat iron to iron clothes and tried ironing the magnetic tape to the card. That solved the problem. Magnetic stripes are now used on credit cards, debit cards, gift cards, stored-value cards, hotel keycards, and security identification badges.
Publications of Forrest Parry
F. C. Parry, IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletin, "Identification Card", Vol. 3, No. 6, November 6, 1960, page 8
See also
Credit card
Magnetic stripe card
References
Merchant Glossary
Southern Utah University in View, Fall 2004, Alumni Awards, pages 3-4
Forrest Corry Parry Obituary in Cedar City Review, Vol. 1, No. 33, February 2, 2006
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