Did you know that the GPS was invented
by scientists at the Naval Research Center ?
Well
now you do.
One of NRL’s greatest accomplishments
has been the invention and development of the enabling technologies that became
the Global Positioning System (GPS) .
Like another towering NRL achievement in
an earlier generation, radar, GPS has transformed warfare while also providing
major benefits to navigation.
GPS is not only a global navigation aid,
it is also the means for precision time
and time transfer throughout the world, which has wide ranging and
influential impact on communications and commerce; these features are a direct
outcome of the technology envisioned and introduced by NRL scientists and
engineers.
This bibliography is offered as an aid to those who are
interested in better understanding the NRL role in the origins of GPS. Bibliographic citations, primarily of
published works, are presented.
These are annotated with abstracts,
photos, and figures to facilitate selecting which of the referenced papers to
examine more closely. A timeline is provided to aid in setting the citations in
their context of historical development.
Learn more about what made all our lives
easier, or at the very least, a little
less lost.
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have arrived.
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