Ed Tuck, Manufactured First Handheld GPS Receiver for General Public, DEAD @ 85

The founder of Magellan.  Demonstrated a technology that now found in every smartphone Not the inventor, but responsible for the vision of making devices small enough to fit it ones pocket and assembling the financing to make it a reality.  

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