Ivan Getting's father influenced the history of Czechoslovakia.
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Instead of navigating a map and checking the name of every town in order to get to your holiday destination, you can just simply type your starting point and destination, and your device does the work for you. That's just one of the many ways the technology known as GPS, Global Positioning System, has made an impact on our daily lives.
But did you know that the idea behind the satellite-based navigation system started in the mind of Ivan Getting, an American physicist and engineer who was born to a family of Slovak immigrants in the United States?
While his father influenced the history of Czechoslovakia, the son left a lasting mark on the whole world. Long before GPS became a thing, a group under Ivan Getting came up with a radar that enabled the destruction of a majority of the V-1 bombs launched against London.
