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The History of Inertial Navigation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2009

Walter Wrigley
Walter Wrigley
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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Practical inertial navigation is a quite recent achievement, only twenty-five years for serious research and development and only five for its commercial use. However, one might possibly say that a partial understanding of some of its principles is much more ancient. For example, in the Bible1 we read that God used a plumb-line to identify a particular location!

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‘Two Centuries of Navigation’
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The Journal of Navigation , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , January 1977 , pp. 61 - 68
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1977

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