Gps

Important dates in the history of science in the contemporary period (1945- present ) in the fields of mathematics and physics

By Géraldine Djuikom

  • The manufacture of the first solar panel by Bell Laboratories, which was intended to serve the conquest of space.

  • The creation of the GPS (Global positionning System) by the US army of the DOD (Department of Defense)

  • The construction of the world's first high-speed train: "The Shinkansen"

  • two of the three astronauts on the Apollo 11 mission, made history by becoming the first men to land and walk on the Moon

  • Introduction of public-Key codes by Adelman, Rivest and Shamir

  • The fractial geometry of nature by Mandelbrot