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

638 APPENDIX K
6. ENGINEERING
PHYSICS
7. ENGINEERING,
STRUCTURAL
& MISC.
MATERIALS
8. METALLURGY
Washburn, Bruun & Hicks, Apparatus and methods for
the separation, identification, and determination of the
chemical constituents. of petroleum (RP45, 1929)
Washburn, On the determination of the empirical formula
of a hydrocarbon (RP236, 1930)
Eckhardt, Karcher & Keiser, Electron tube drive for tuning
forks (Phys. Rev. 17, 535, 1921)
Heyl & Briggs, The earth inductor compass (Proc. Am.
Phil. Soc. 61, 15, 1922)
Tuckerman, [The Tuckerman optical strain gage] (Am.
Soc. Testing Mater. Proc. 23, 602, 1923)
Heck, Eckhardt & Chrisler, Radio-acoustic method of position
finding in hydrographic surveys (no publ., 1924)
Quayle, Spark photography and its application to some
problems in ballistics [First spark shadow photographs
of bullets in flight] (S508, 1924)
Zobel & Carroll, A hot-wire anemometer for measuring air
flow through engine radiators (T287, 1925)
Briggs, Hull & Dryden, Aerodynamic characteristics of
airfoils at high speeds (Nati. Adv. Comm. Aeron. Tech.
Rep. 207, 1924; Nat!. Adv. Comm. Aeron. Tech. Rep.
319, 1929; Nati. Mv. Comm. Aeron. Tech. Rep. 365,
1930)
Tuckerman, Keulegan & Eaton, A fabric tension meter for
use on aircraft [for testing rigid airship envelopes]
(T320, '1926)
Buckingham, Theory and . . . experiments on the transmission
of sound through partition walls (S506, 1925)
Dryden, Heald, et a!., Investigations in turbulence in wind
tunnels (Nati. Adv. Comm. Aeron. Tech. Rep. 231, 1926;
Natl. Adv. Comm. Aeron. Tech. Rep. 342,. 1930, et seq.)
Whittemore, Petrenko, et al., Proving rings for calibrating
testing machines (patents, 1926; C454, 1946)
Heyl, A redetermination of the constant of gravitation
(RP256, 1930)
Tuckerman, Whittemore & Petrenko, A new dead-weight
testing machine of 100,000 pounds capacity (RP147,
1930)
Dryden & Hill, [Studies of wind pressure on structures]
(Proc. Nati. Acad. Sci., Nov 1930; RP3O1, 1931; RP545,
1933)
Holt & Wormeley, Dynamometer [equipment and] tests
of automobile tires (T240, 1923)
Holt & Wormeley, [Equipment for] Endurance tests of
tires (T318, 1926)
Holt, Wormeley, et al., The testing of rubber goods (C38,
5th ed., 1927)
Kline & Acree, Consumption of nitric acid in the oxidation
of xylose (md. Eng. Chem. 22, 975, 1930)
Kline & Acree, A study of the method for titrating aldose
sugars with standard iodine and alkali (RP247, 1930)
Merica & Waltenberg, [Pioneer work on the] Malleability
and metallography of nickel (T281, 1925)
French & Klopsch, Initial temperature and mass effects in
quenching ,T295, 1925; French & Hamill, RP1O3, 1929)