GPS
$72.22
- Paperback
232 pages
- Release Date
6 November 2018
Summary
A concise history of GPS, from its military origins to its commercial applications and ubiquity in everyday life.GPS is ubiquitous in everyday life. GPS mapping is standard equipment in many new cars and geolocation services are embedded in smart phones. GPS makes Uber and Lyft possible; driverless cars won’t be able to drive without it. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Paul Ceruzzi offers a concise history of GPS, explaining how a once-obscure space technology beca…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262535953 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262535955 |
| Author: | Paul E. Ceruzzi |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 232 |
| Release Date: | 6 November 2018 |
| Weight: | 210g |
| Dimensions: | 178mm x 127mm |
| Series: | GPS |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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…a compelling narrative about how global technological systems came to exist.– Nature Electronics –
…a compelling narrative about how global technological systems came to exist.
—Nature ElectronicsAbout The Author
Paul E. Ceruzzi
Paul E. Ceruzzi is Curator at the National Air and Space Museum at the Smithsonian Institution. He is the author of Computing: A Concise History, A History of Modern Computing, and Internet Alley: High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945-2005, all published by the MIT Press, and other books.
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