Unprofessional Engineering

Interview with Hugo Fruehauf: Inventor of the GPS - Episode 178


Listen Later

The invention of the GPS has changed the world like few inventions have in the past 50 years. The billions of dollars it has injected into the global economy aside, this technology has revolutionized everything from how we drive, to the tracking of continental shifts.
We have been lucky enough to get to meet with one of the inventors of GPS, Hugo Fruehauf, who recently was awarded the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (think of it like the Nobel Prize for engineering). Hugo's contributions to GPS focused on the creation of the atomic clock which gives GPS the crazy accuracy to get you where you're going.
In addition to discussing the QE Prize and GPS, we talked learned about Hugo's work on other projects like the Titan I and the Saturn V rocket. You're not going to want to miss this episode!
...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

Unprofessional EngineeringBy Unprofessional Engineering

  • 4.8
  • 4.8
  • 4.8
  • 4.8
  • 4.8

4.8

431 ratings


More shows like Unprofessional Engineering

View all
The Best of Car Talk by NPR

The Best of Car Talk

16,500 Listeners

Stuff You Should Know by iHeartPodcasts

Stuff You Should Know

77,411 Listeners

Hidden Brain by Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam

Hidden Brain

43,471 Listeners

Pod Save America by Crooked Media

Pod Save America

86,129 Listeners

The Daily by The New York Times

The Daily

111,034 Listeners