The Global Positioning System (GPS) was invented by the United States military and uses satellite data to accurately locate positions on the earth. Here a Department of Survey and Land Information surveyor inspects the large and cumbersome equipment needed in the 1980s.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PAColl-7327)
Reference:
EP/1989/1762/34A
Photograph by Jon Hargest
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