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

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Five types <strong>of</strong> NBS radio proximity fazes mounted on <strong>the</strong> weapons <strong>for</strong> which <strong>the</strong>y were designed. Mr. Harry Diamond, at left,<br />

holds <strong>the</strong> 81-mm mortar shell with <strong>the</strong> mortar fuze. Dr. Alexander Ellett, Chief <strong>of</strong> Division 4, NDRC, holds <strong>the</strong> mortar faze<br />

unmounted. Left to right on <strong>the</strong> table are a ring-type bomb fuze adapted <strong>for</strong> rockets, mounted here on a 5-inch high-velocity<br />

rocket; a later developed rocket fuze on <strong>the</strong> same rocket; a bar-type bomb fuze on a 260-pound fragmentation bomb; and a ringtype<br />

fuze on <strong>the</strong> 500-pound general purpose bomb.

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