GPS (Global Positioning System)
Engineering / Breakthroughs
The GPS, or Global Positioning System, is the high-tech application of one of the most fundamental principles of geometry. Surveyors routinely use geometry and triangulation to map and lay out areas o continue reading this fact
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NASA Hits a Hole-In-One
Engineering / Breakthroughs
How are NASA and golf related? Ask the professional golfers using clubs made from NASA's space-age technology. NASA needed stronger, more durable materials for its space missions. A landmark discovery continue reading this fact
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How We Use Crystals To Tell Time
Engineering / Breakthroughs
Quartz clock operation is based on the piezoelectric property of quartz crystals. If you apply an electric field to the crystal, it changes its shape, and if you squeeze it or bend it, it generates an continue reading this fact
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