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Now, we look to the future of digital technologies.
By supporting the green recovery and ensuring the intelligent use of data, we're ensuring the UK's position as a science superpower.
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2019: The National Timing Centre Programme
The programme enables the UK to move away from relying on GPS and delivers resilient time and frequency for our emergency services, telecoms, energy, broadcast and finance.
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2018: Detecting earthquakes with optical cables
Our scientists discovered that the existing underwater optical fibre infrastructure could be used as a giant array of sensors for the early detection of underwater earthquakes.
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2017: Building a 'Google Earth' of cancer
NPL's Professor Josephine Bunch led a @CancerResearchUK project to develop a reproducible, standardised way to map tumours, revealing how they survive and why they keep growing.
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2016: Our dedicated data science team is formed
The team deliver the measurement standards that enable organisations to use data with confidence, supporting medical imaging, digital supply chains and climate change analysis.
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We opened our Quantum Metrology Institute in 2015.
The QMI plays a key role for UK industry as the heart of the expertise we provide to help businesses commercialise new quantum technologies.
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2008: Quality Assurance for Earth Observation (QA4EO)
We launched the QA4EO Framework to provide confidence in data. Today, we continue this via #TRUTHS which aims to create a climate & calibration observatory in space.
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1988: NPL develops the technology for cards with one or more integrated circuits (chips) which will go on to provide the foundations for chip and PIN payment cards.
These replaced magnetic stripe payment cards in 2003.
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1970: NPL develops the world's first local area network (LAN)
Using the packet switching technique, this provided a range of online services to around 200 users, leading to further developments towards the modern day Internet.
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1965: Packet switching is developed
Donald Davies and his team at NPL invent the method by which all data is transferred across networks, called packet switching.
This process underpins the Internet we know today.
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1955: The first accurate caesium atomic clock is developed at NPL
Today, atomic clocks provide the precision timing needed to underpin technology such as the internet, mobile communications and global navigation satellite systems.
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1945: Alan Turing joins NPL to develop the Advanced Computing Engine (ACE) computer.
The research undertaken by Alan Turing & his colleagues at NPL laid the theoretical foundations for modern-day computing & artificial intelligence.
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1935: Radar is invented at NPL
Radar uses radio waves reflected off surfaces to detect objects. First used to detect aircraft during WWII, this technology is now used by autonomous vehicles to sense their environment.
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Throughout our history, we've provided the measurement expertise to enable digital technologies to succeed.
Countdown with us to the new year as we explore key milestones in our digital timeline over the course of 122 years.
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