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

102 FOUNDING THE NATIONAL BUREAU OF STANDARDS (1901-10)
neering for advanced degrees or promotion. Since Dr. Stratton established
the graduate program in 1908, more than 15,500 registrations have been re-
corded, resulting in the award of 270 graduate degrees by 40 different univer-
sities, for research carried out in part at least at the Bureau.93
After the l920's all the physical sciences were levied on for degrees,
but in the age of electricity, as historians of modern technology have called
the period prior to World War I, much of the doctoral research was done in
the laboratories presided over by Dr. Rosa, where a hundred years of basic and
empirical electrical research awaited standards and new measurements and
the scientists to determine them. Well before the end of the first decade
Rosa's had become the premier division of the Bureau.
Annual Report, Research Highlights of the NBS, 1960, pp. 159—160. See also eight-
page account of the program attached to letter, L. J. Briggs to U .S. Office of Education,
Federal Security Agency, July 12, 1940 (NBS Box 443, ID-Misc).
The brass troy pound of 1758, or Imperial
Standard Troy Pound, which with the
standard yard of 1760 were declared to
be the only original and genuine standards
of Great Britain. Both were damaged in
the burning of the Houses of Parliament
on October 16, 1834.