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    A BRIEF HISTORY OF GPS

    by Gregory Barber and Alexander Sammon Oct 25, 2016 2 minutes

    1956: Sci-fi author Arthur C. Clarke envisions “a position-finding grid whereby anyone on earth could locate himself by means of a couple of dials on an instrument about the size of a watch...No one on the planet need ever get lost…unless he wanted to be.”

    1957: The Soviet Union sends Sputnik into orbit; US officials scramble to catch up.

    1960: The Navy

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