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Cedar Rapids Gazette in Cedar Rapids, Iowa

22 Sep 2002

Page 37

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Cedar Rapids Gazette

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Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Sep 22, 2002

Page

37

JA inducts 3 Iowans into half JA inducts 3 Iowans into half

Three Eastern Iowa businessmen will join the Junior Achievement of East Central Iowa Business Hall of Fame. The honorees are the late George Foerstner founder of Amana Refrigeration Abbott Lipsky former Smulekoffs president and Lee Noel co founder of Noel Levitz.

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George C. Ford Gazette Cedar Rapids Iowa East Central Iowa Business Hall of Fame George Foerstner Amana Refrigeration Amana Abbott Lipsky Smulekoff's Lee Noel Noel-Levitz Iowa City Foerstner Electrical Equipment Co Amana Appliances High Amana Amana Woolen Mills Amana Society Howard Hall Raytheon Co Harris Trust Lipsky Smulekoff’s Joan Henry Smulekoff
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GPS Signaling Breakthrough at Rockwell Collins

Rockwell Collins engineers pursued a satellite simulator for GPS when no satellites were operating. On July 18 1977 at 1 41 p m the Cedar Rapids team captured a signal that looked like repeating A and 5s, a milestone in the race to decode NAVSTAR GPS signals.

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Dave DeWitte Gazette Edar Rapids Dave van Dusseldorp Rockwell Collins van Dusseldorp Rockwell International Iowa State University Engineering Grad Rockwell Advanced Engineering Government Systems Navstar U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Command Magnavox Teledyne C Avenue NE Cedar Rapids Greg Hudak Purdue University Hudak Arizona California
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How GPS Works and Why It Is Precise

GPS uses 24 orbiting satellites and signals from at least four to determine location. A precise clock in each satellite and a receiver quartz clock allow time differences to compute distances, yielding a single accurate position on Earth. For more details see the HowStuffWorks article by Marshall Brain and Tom Harris.

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WA Gps Earth Marshall Brain Tom Harris Howstuffworks.com Gpsi
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Foerstner, Lipsky Noel Abbott Lipsky Smulekoff Lee Noel Noel-Levitz Well Collins Photos
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