The Teenagers Who Imagined GPS Before the Civil War

While at Harvard in the 1830s, a 13-year-old Edward Everett Hale and his brother dreamed up a brick satellite that could pinpoint any ship’s location on Earth.

By: Alexander MacDonald

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Books by Edward Everett Hale at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/650

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