Original version

BBC World Service Europe and the Middle East

World Wise Web

Factual: Science & Nature: Science & Technology

Teenagers talk to technology pioneers who have shaped their lives

Teenagers from around the world talk to technology pioneers who have shaped their lives.

Teenagers from the around the world talk to the technology pioneers who have shaped their lives. Each episode is introduced by seventeen year old Anna Zanelli, a budding designer from London. Young people get the chance to ask leading innovators the questions they want answered. We find out about the inspiration behind some of the most important digital inventions, what their creators needed to do to make them a reality, and hear words of wisdom from brilliant minds.

BBC World Service Online

BBC World Service

BBC World Service News Internet

BBC World Service West and Central Africa Schedule

BBC World Service West and Central Africa

BBC World Service Australasia

BBC World Service schedule for American satellite radio and the Caribbean

BBC World Service Americas and the Caribbean

BBC World Service East and Southern Africa Schedule

BBC World Service East and Southern Africa

BBC World Service South Asia

BBC World Service East Asia

World Wise Web: GPS

01/02/2020 GMT

BBC World Service - World Wise Web, GPS

How Professor Bradford Parkinson and his team developed GPS

How Professor Bradford Parkinson and his team developed GPS: the Global Positioning System.

The digital world only works if it is connected. In the early 1970s, Professor Bradford Parkinson was working with the United States Air Force as an engineer leading the team that developed the Global Positioning System, or GPS, which uses satellites to pinpoint users wherever they are. Sixteen-year-old Malak from Israel finds out from Professor Parkinson how it all came about, and why he still uses maps to sail by.

Producer: Tamsin Barber.
 
World Wise Web is a co-production between BBC World Service and BBC Rewind.
Music composed by Nick Thorburn

Accessibility links

Programme Index

World Wise Web

GPS

Genres

Brand

BBC World Service Europe and the Middle East

About BBC World Service