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

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Provided, That the members of the Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, as such,
shall serve without compensation:
Provided further, That it shall be the duty of the Advisory Committee for Aero-
nautics to supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight, with a view
to their practical solution, and to determine the problems which should be experi-
mentally attacked, and to discuss their solution and their application to practical ques-
tions. In the event of a laboratory or laboratories, either in whole or in part, being
placed under the direction of the committee, the committee may direct and conduct
research and experiment in such laboratory or laboratories:
And provided further, That rules and regulations for the conduct of the work of
the committee shall be formulated by the committee and approved by the President.
That the sum of $5,000 a year, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for five
years is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appro-
priated, to be immediately available, for experimental work and investigations under-
taken by the committee, clerical expenses and supplies, and necessary expenses of
members of the committee in going to, returning from, and while attending meetings
of the committee:
Provided, That an annual report to the Congress shall be submitted through the
President, including an itemized statement of expenditures.
Urgent Deficiency Act of 15 june 1917 (40 Stat. 216)—[Beginning
of NBS military research during World War I]
• . - To enable the Bureau of Standards to cooperate with the War and Navy
Departments by providing the scientific assistance necessary in the development of
instruments, devices, and materials, and the standardization and testing of supplies -
• $250,000.
- . - To provide by cooperation of the Bureau of Standards the War Department,
the Navy Department, and the Council of National Defense, for the standardization and
testing of the standard gauges, screw threads, and standards required in manufacturing
throughout the United States, and to calibrate and test such standard gauges, screw
threads, and standards • - ., $150,000. -
Act of 18 july 1918 (40 Stat. 912)—An Act To provide for the appoint-
ment of a commission to standardize screw threads [as amended by Act of
3 Mar 1919 (40 Stat. 1291)].
Be it enacted - - ., That a commission is hereby created, to be known as the Com-
mission for the Standardization of Screw Threads, hereinafter referred to as the com-
mission, which shall be composed of nine commissioners, one of whom shall be the
Director of the Bureau of Standards, who shall be chairman of the commission; two
commissioned officers of the Army, to be appointed by the Secretary of War; two com-
missioned officers of the Navy, to be appointed by the Secretary of the Navy; and four
to be appointed by the Secretary of Commerce, two of whom shall be chosen from
nominations m'ade by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and two from
nominations made by the Society of Automotive Engineers.
SEC. 2. That it shall be the duty of said commission to ascertain and establish
standards for screw threads, which shall be submitted to the Secretary of War, the
Secretary of the Navy, and the Secretary of Commerce for their acceptance and approval.
Such standards, when thus accepted and approved, shall be adopted and used in the