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Raise your hand if you use GPS! ✋🏻✋🏽✋🏾✋🏿 #DYK? Mathematician Dr. Gladys West and her work laid the foundation for what we know today as the Global Positioning System (GPS). 🛰️ #BlackHistoryMonth https://t.co/N4RBCzOSyV — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 11, 2022

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And we're about to create a whole lot more through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. https://t.co/oAXjnx2HCD — PolitiTweet.org

In my first full year as president, the economy created 6.6 million jobs. 6.6 million — that’s never happened before.

Posted Feb. 10, 2022

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Gladys and her team programmed an IBM 7030 Stretch computer to provide calculations for an accurate geodetic Earth model. This detailed mathematical model of the shape of the Earth was a building block for what would become the GPS orbit. #BlackHistoryMonth — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 11, 2022