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

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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). .
5000 4500 4000 3500 3000 2500 2000 1500 1000 500 FV 1900 Ft —t— NBS AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL 4781 World War I begIns 1914 135 Sources: NBS Annual Reports; Records of NBS Personnel Division; Sources cited in the History — Stock Market I crash 1929 I 1150 ii 1920 I I I AEF arrives in France 1917 V-E Day V-i Day 1945 Pearl Harbor 1941 I 1066 668 APPENDIX H South Korea 1957 Invaded 1950 \\ World War II begIns 1939 800 U 3636 Transfer of NBS Fuse and Mlsslie Programs to Dept. of Defense 1953 1SJ STRATTON BURGESS BRIGGS CONDON ASTIN
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Rexmond C. Cochrane MP 275 UNITED S
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Grateful acknowledgment is made to
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IV FOREWORD There are many examples
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VI PREFACE Vannevar Bush, architect
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VIII AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION so many
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CONTENTS Page FOREWORD 'U PREFACE v
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CONTENTS XIII Chapter II. FOUNDING
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CONTENTS XV Chapter III. ELECTRICIT
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CONTENTS XVII Chapter IV. THE WAR Y
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CONTENTS Chapter V. THE TIDE OF COM
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CONTENTS XXI Chapter VII. WORLD WAR
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XXIV CONTENTS THE CRUCIAL DECADE—
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MAIN STREET, 1900 AT THE TURN OF TH
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MAIN STREET, 1900 The marvel of the
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MAIN STREET, 1900 5 prosperous more
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THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME 9 Among
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THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME 11 make
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THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME 13 stit
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GOVERNMENT, SCIENCE, AND THE GENERA
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GOVERNMENT, SCIENCE, AND THE GENERA
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LOOKING BACK 21 was maintained only
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LOOKING BACK 23 general public. Ada
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LOOKING BACK 27 barometric pressure
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LOOKING BACK 31 Without the force o
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LAISSEZ-FAIRE STANDARDS 33 necessar
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LAISSEZ-FAIRE STANDARDS 35 the Stat
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LAISSEZ-FAIRE STANDARDS 37 Some of
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A NATiONAL NEED . . . A NATIONAL HU
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A NATIONAL NEED .. . A NATIONAL HUM
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A NATIONAL NEED . . . A NATIONAL HU
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SAMUEL WESLEY STRATTON FOUNDING THE
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SAMUEL WESLEY STRATTON 51 fessor of
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SAMUEL WESLEY STRATTON ing Professo
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SAMUEL WESLEY STRATTON 55 For over
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SAMUEL WESLEY STRATTON 59 TIlE EVEN
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SAMUEL WESLEY STRATTON appeared as
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EDWARD B. ROSA 63 Dr. Edward B. Ros
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EDWARD B. ROSA 65 Free exercise of
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EDWARD B. ROSA 67 Dr. Charles W. Wa
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THE NEW BUREAU LABORATORIES 69 exer
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THE NEW BUREAU LABORATORIES 71 Chas
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ACQUIRING NATIONAL STANDARDS 73 mad
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ACQUIRING NATIONAL STANDARDS Divisi
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ACQUIRING NATIONAL STANDARDS 77 ref
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ACQUIRING NATIONAL STANDARDS 79 in
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ACQUIRiNG NATIONAL STANDARDS The wo
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AN AUTUMN FIRE AND A CONSUMERS' CRU
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The Baltimore fire of 1904. The tur
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AN AUTUMN FIRE AND A CONSUMERS' CRU
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AN: AUTUMN FIRE AND CONSUMERS' CRUS
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THE BEGINNING OF GOVERNMENT TESTING
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THE BEGINNING OF 93 gates, poured c
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The Bureau about 1910, just prior t
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The 2,300,000-pound Emery testing m
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THE BEGiNNING OF GOVERNMENT TESTING
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THE BEGINNING OF GOVERNMENT TESTING
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STANDARDS FOR THE AGE OF ELECTRICIT
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STANDARDS FOR PUBLiC UTILITIES 111
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STANDARDS FOR PUBLIC UTILITIES 115
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TESTING GOVERNMENT MATERIALS 125 Go
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STANDARDS FOR THE CONSUMER 133 in t
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148 ELECTRICiTY, RAILROADS, AND RAD
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152 ELECTRiCITY, RAILROADS, AND RAD
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154 ELECTRICITY, RAiLROADS, AND RAD
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160 THE WAR YEARS (1917-19) design.
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162 THE WAR YEARS (1917-19) and Gov
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164 Abate, the experimental roiling
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Mule teams leveling the ground for
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C' The Standard Store and gas stati
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186 THE WAR YEARS (1917-19) make it
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OPTICAL GLASS AND OPTICAL INSTRUMEN
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198 THE WAR YEARS (1917-19) The use
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218 THE WAR YEARS (1917-19) tripled
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GEORGE KIMBALL BURGESS 245 and ofte
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GEORGE KIMBALL BURGESS 247 Bureau n
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BUiLDING AND HOUSING 249 Although i
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BUILDING AND HOUSING 251 The spring
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THE CRUSADE FOR STANDARDIZATION 253
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RESEARCH FOR INDUSTRY 263 RESEARCH
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RESEARCH FOR INDUSTRY 265 appliance
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RESEARCH FOR INDUSTRY 267 molasses
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AUTOMOBILES AND AIRCRAFT 285 Testin
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POLICING THE ETHER 287 circuit crys
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POLICING THE ETHER 289 died in comm
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POLICING THE ETHER 291 If simple re
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POLICING THE ETHER 293 Bureau turne
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POLICING THE ETHER 295 a special hi
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POLICING THE ETHER 297 and radiotel
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LYMAN JAMES BRIGGS 313 Receiving th
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TOWARD A REDEFINiTION OF BUREAU FUN
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THE BUREAU AND THE ATOMIC BOMB 387
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THE RADIO PROXIMiTY FUZE 389 ness o
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THE RADIO PROXIMiTY FUZE 393 Actual
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THE RADIO PROXIMITY FUZE 397 Novemb
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RESEARCH IN CRITICAL MATERIALS 411
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C).' Gaithersburg, showing the high
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APPENDIX 1 617 FIELD STATIONS Brook
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I.- C,) z IC, a -J LAND PURCHASES
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678 PUBLISHED SOURCES Biographies,
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INDEX Note: Only those members of t
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INDEX BELL, Alexander Graham, 210 B
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iNDEX Colorimetry section, NBS, 170
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692 inventions at NBS (see NBS staf
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694 metric legislation, 209, 210—
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698 PRIEST, Irwin C., 99n, 186, 196
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700 screw thread standardization, 3
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702 INDEX testing machines, 96 text
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INDEX WALKER, Percy H., 155 WALLACE
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