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Measures for Progress: A History of the National Bureau of Standards

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The 2,300,000-pound Emery testing machine in Washington, <strong>for</strong> making exhaustion tests<br />

<strong>of</strong> beams, girders, and o<strong>the</strong>r large metal structural components. A similar compression-<br />

to-exhaustion giant, <strong>the</strong> Olsen machine, was at <strong>the</strong> Pittsburgh laboratories, <strong>for</strong> destruc-<br />

tion tests <strong>of</strong> piers and o<strong>the</strong>r masonry columns.<br />

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