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

NBS SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS, 1910-1935
APPENDIX C
1915 1920 1925 1930 1935
Weights and measuies ($10,000)*
Gas light ($10,000)
Electrolysis investigation ($15,000)
Testing structural 4iaterials ($50 000 $333 200)
Testing structural for U.S.
Testing machines $54 700)
Refrigeration ($15,000)
High-voltage ($15,000)
Testing railroad $les ($25 000 $62 000)
Fire resisting prop4rties ($25 000 $3S000)
Testing materials ($20 $51 163) I
Railway materials
Public utility ($25 000 $114 159)
Radio research ($12 263 $85 700) I
Color standardization ($10 000 $15
Clay products I
F Physical constants ($5,000) I
Standardizing mechanical apptiances
Optical glass ($10I000-$84,388) 1
Military research ($577,176)
F Automotive
Gage standardization ($226,138- $433,000)
National Security Defense Funds ($j,395,000)
Standard materials ($4,000-$10,000)
Textile investigatiOn ($10,000-$60,900)
Sugar technology
Storage batteries ($20,000) I
Mine scales and cars ($15,000)
Public utility investigation ($53,522)
Metallurgical research ($30,040- $61,000)
High.temperature
Industrial ($362,881- $437,009) .
Sound investigationF ($7237111260)
Industrial safety ($25,000)
Testing Government materials
Standardization of ($52 292 $258
Platinum and rare ($15,000) ,
Radioactive substahces and x rays ($1,000- $31,741) .
Rope investigation ($20,000)
engine research ($10 000 60000) N
Utilization of waste products ($50,000 .
Dental materials
Furnaces and shelter ($22,000)
Hydraulic researchF($36,880-$44,270) N
1910 1920 1925 1930 1935
*Figures represent initial and maximum appropriations.
Note: Speciai appropriations continued after 1935 in special annuai appropriations for Standards for commerce (1936-1946),
investigation of building materials (1938-1942), and Radio propagation awl standards (1950-1955).
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