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The History of Inertial Navigation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 November 2009
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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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