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Encyclopedia > Bradford Parkinson

Dr Bradford Parkinson is a professor at Stanford University and is credited as the co-inventor of the Global Positioning System. For other meanings of Stanford, see Stanford (disambiguation). ... Over fifty GPS satellites such as this NAVSTAR have been launched since 1978. ...


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Global Positioning System - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (6473 words)
Ivan Getting, emeritus president of The Aerospace Corporation and engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, established the basis for GPS, improving on the World War II land-based radio system called LORAN (Long-range Radio Aid to Navigation).
Bradford Parkinson, teacher of aeronautics and astronautics at Stanford University, developed the system.
One GPS developer, Roger L. Easton, received the National Medal of Technology on February 13, 2006 at the White House.
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The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris Author: White, Edmund --- Publisher: St Martins Pr (T) Buy - More Info
The Global Positioning System: Theory and Applications Author: Parkinson, Bradford W.; Spilker, James J.; Axelrad, Penina; Enge, Per --- Publisher: Amer Inst of Aeronautics &
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