The 700 Club Testimony | Gladys West Paving The Way to GPS // CBN
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0:06 . >>> COMING UP, THE MATH WIZ BUILT THE MODERN WORLD. >> AT A TIME WHEN WE BARELY 0:14 KNEW HOW TO USE COMPUTERS. >> THAT DEPENDS UPON ANYTHING. 0:21 >> HOW THIS HIDDEN FIGURE HELPED AMERICA INTO ORBIT. PAVES THE WAY FOR THE GPS. >> A CLEAN CIRCLE ON TODAY’S 0:42 700 CLUB.
Meet the math whiz who built the modern world at a time when we barely knew how to use computers. See how Gladys West helped America into orbit and paved the way for G-P-S on today’s 700 Club.
She was a mathematician known for her work contributing to the development of the Global Positioning System (GPS). Like NASA mathematicians Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson, West is often called one of history’s “hidden figures”: individuals, often Black women, whose insightful contributions to science went unrecognized in their time because of their race or gender. | Read full story… brittanica.com
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