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

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APPENDIX K 639<br />

9. CERAMICS<br />

French & Tucker, Flow in a low-carbon steel at various<br />

temperatures [Pioneer work on creep <strong>of</strong> metals at<br />

elevated temperatures] (T296, 1925; Geil & Carwile,<br />

RP2329, 1952)<br />

Jordan & Eckman, Gases in metals [Pioneer work on <strong>the</strong><br />

effects <strong>of</strong> oxygen and hydrogen on <strong>the</strong> properties and<br />

behavior <strong>of</strong> metals] (S514, 1925)<br />

Herschman, Air-hardening rivet stcels (T358, 1927)<br />

Rawdon, [The prevention <strong>of</strong> corrosion in duralumin]<br />

Nail. Adv. Comm. Aeron. Tech. Note 284, 1928)<br />

Saeger and Ash, [Practical methods <strong>of</strong> determining <strong>the</strong><br />

quality <strong>of</strong> metals in <strong>the</strong> foundry] (LC252, 1928; RP399,<br />

1932)<br />

Logan, Soil-corrosion studies (First explanation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

mechanism <strong>of</strong> corrosion in soils] (RP95, 1929)<br />

French & Digges, Turning with shallow cuts at high<br />

speeds [and method <strong>for</strong> testing high-speed tool steels]<br />

(RP12O, 1929)<br />

Freeman, Scherer & Rosenberg, Reliability <strong>of</strong> fusible tin<br />

boiler plugs in service [Cause and remedy <strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

failure in marine boilers] (RP129, 1930; see also<br />

Burgess & Merica, T53, 1914)<br />

Finn, Making <strong>the</strong> glass disk <strong>for</strong> a 70-inch telescope reflec-<br />

tor [The first reflector this large made in <strong>the</strong> United<br />

States] (RP97, 1929)<br />

NATIONAL BUREAU OF STANDARDS<br />

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY—1931--1940<br />

1. ELECTRICAL<br />

San<strong>for</strong>d, A method <strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong> standardization <strong>of</strong> perme-<br />

ameters at high magnetizing <strong>for</strong>ces (RP279, 193].)<br />

Kear & Wintermute, A simultaneous radiotelephone and<br />

visual range beacon <strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong> airways (RP341, 1931)<br />

Diamond, The.cause and elimination <strong>of</strong> night effects in<br />

radio range-beacon reception (RPSJ3, 1933)<br />

Brooks, The standard-cell comparator [Design and con-<br />

struction <strong>of</strong> a specialized potentiometer <strong>for</strong> exact com-<br />

parison <strong>of</strong> standard cells] (RP586, 1933)<br />

Harris, A new cathode-ray oscillograph and its application<br />

to <strong>the</strong> study <strong>of</strong> power loss in dielectric materials<br />

(RP636, 1934)<br />

Dunmore, Unicontrol radio receiver <strong>for</strong> ultra high fre-<br />

quencies, using concentric lines as interstage couplers<br />

(RP856, 1935)<br />

Dellinger, Sudden disturbances <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> ionosphere [Dis-<br />

covery <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Dellinger effect] (RP1O16, 1937)<br />

Curtis, Moon & Sparks, An absolute determination <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

ohm (RP857, 1936; RP1137, 1938)

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