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Time and Navigation: The Untold Story of Getting from Here to There An Exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum CGSIC Timing Subcommittee Carlene E. Stephens September 14, 2015

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Time and Navigation: The Untold Story of Getting

from Here to There

An Exhibition at the Smithsonian’s

National Air and Space Museum

CGSIC Timing Subcommittee Carlene E. Stephens September 14, 2015

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Second floor, National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C.

Opened April 2013

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Entrance Clock

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Sea, Air, and Space

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Inventing and Using Satellite Navigation

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Time Zone

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timeandnavigation.si.edu

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What’s New? • TI4100 GPS Receiver

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What’s New? • “Ask an Expert” program

2015 Speakers in Time and Navigation Paul Ceruzzi, Sept. 2014: Smartphone Navigation Andrew Johnston, Jan. 2015: Mariner 10 Andrew Johnston, Feb. 2015: How to Navigate a Submarine Carlene Stephens, March 2015: Bond Chronometer from 1815 Andrew Johnston, June 2015: Atomic Clocks and the Leap Second Rory McEvoy, August 2015: Marine Chronometers Peggy Kidwell, August 2015: Ramsden Dividing Engine

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What’s New?

• Collaboration with Folger Shakespeare Library and National Maritime Museum, Greenwich

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What’s New? • “STEM in 30” Live Video Program

http://airandspace.si.edu/explore-and-learn/ stem-in-30/archive/?id=17776

Originally Presented: August 26, 2015

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What’s New?

• Exhibition Book