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Hewlett-packard developed frequency standards
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Six Degrees with Mike Rowe

Hewlett-packard developedfrequency standards With the hp 5060a, The world's first...

Hewlett-packard developed
frequency standards With the hp 5060a, The world's first transportable
cesium-beam atomic clock, Which was so accurate It not only became
the world's time standard, It also allowed
global time correlations Between nasa headquarters And a spacecraft
outside our atmosphere

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Hewlett-packard developed frequency standards
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With the hp 5060a,
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The world's first transportable cesium-beam atomic clock,
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Which was so accurate
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It not only became the world's time standard,
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It also allowed global time correlations
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Between nasa headquarters
00:00:19.852 --> 00:00:22.853
And a spacecraft outside our atmosphere.
Duration
23 seconds
Views
18
Timestamp in Movie
00:23:11
Uploaded
May 25, 2025
Season
1
Episode
6
Production
School of Humans

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Movie Summary

Mike Rowe shows how many things in the world are connected. By using historical facts, Mike takes two seemingly unrelated things and shows an indirect connection.