Silvian IordanKaberlineEnglish 3 hours 43 March 2014GPS: The Greatest Invention since 1898GPS, like many other technologies, has had a major impact on every aspect of modern life. GPS was initially created primarily to be used for military purposes but due to events that occurred during Earth's history GPS was later made available to the public. However, before the creation of GPS, people had to use other means of navigation to get from one place to another. Over time these alternative navigation methods have become more advanced and practical. These methods slowly led to the creation of GPS. GPS has gone through many technological advancements that are now present everywhere from cell phones and watches to ATMs and bulldozers. In fact, before the global positioning system was invented, early travelers had to use other means of navigation to get to their destination. destination. These early navigation methods included landmarks, dead reckoning, and celestial navigation. The landmarks were early means of navigation. It was the first type of navigation used to reach different places. But using landmarks as a type of navigation was difficult due to the constantly changing environment due to human interference and natural processes (National Parks Service). Dead reckoning was another type of navigation applied to travel across oceans. This type of navigation used a process that calculated one's position using a previous position based on known speeds that occurred over time. When using dead reckoning you may realize that the process is complicated and that the measurement tools used in the process gave inaccurate results (National Parks Service). airspace users, greater safety, greater human life safety capabilities such as EGPWS. Another application will include the environment. In this application the advantages of using a GPS will be the ability to track any patterns in the environment to create maps, quickly analyze them without using field data in digitized format, accurate tracking of environmental disasters including oil spills, monitor endangered species extinction and provide seismic monitoring data. These are just some of the applications where GPS can help, but GPS still offers many benefits to other (GPS) applications. To summarize, GPS has been able to make its way into every electronic knowledge known to mankind. Furthermore, navigation as a whole has undergone many advances which have led it to be part of many projects. GPS has also had a major impact on every aspect of modern life.