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

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640 APPENDIX K<br />

2. WEIGHTS &<br />

MEASURES<br />

3. HEAT & POWER<br />

Brooks, Defandorf & Silsbee, An absolute electrometer<br />

<strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong> measurement <strong>of</strong> high alternating voltages<br />

(RP1078, 1938)<br />

Diamond, Hinman, Dunmore, et al., A method <strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

investigation <strong>of</strong> upper-air phenomena and its application<br />

to radio meteorography [The radiosonde] (RP1082,<br />

1938; RP1329, 1940)<br />

Dunmore, An electric hygrometer and its application to<br />

radio meteorography (RP11O2, 1938; RP1265, 1939)<br />

Astin, Measurement <strong>of</strong> relative and true power factors <strong>of</strong><br />

air capacitors (RP1138, 1938)<br />

George, Production <strong>of</strong> accurate one-second time intervals<br />

(RP1136, 1938)<br />

Curtiss, Astin, et al., An improved radio meteorograph on<br />

<strong>the</strong> Olland principle (RP1169, 1939)<br />

Design <strong>of</strong> flexible steel gages <strong>for</strong> control <strong>of</strong> mesh<br />

size <strong>of</strong> gill nets (LC372, 1933)<br />

Peffer, Device <strong>for</strong> testing haemacytometers and o<strong>the</strong>r<br />

pipettes <strong>of</strong> small capacity [The Peffer pipette tester]<br />

(RP1O19, 1937)<br />

Knoop, Peters & Emerson, A sensitive pyramidal-diamond<br />

tool <strong>for</strong> indentation measurements [The Knoop hardness<br />

indenter] (RP1220, 1939)<br />

Roeser, Caidwell & Wensel, The freezing point <strong>of</strong> platinum<br />

(RP326, 1931)<br />

Van Dusen & Shelton, Apparatus <strong>for</strong> measuring <strong>the</strong>rmal<br />

conductivity <strong>of</strong> metals up to 600° C (RP668, 1934)<br />

Wensel, Judd & Roeser, Establishment <strong>of</strong> a scale <strong>of</strong> color<br />

temperature (RP677, 1934)<br />

Wensel, International Temperature Scale and some re-<br />

lated physical constants (RP1189, 1939)<br />

Osborne, Stimson & Ginnings, Thermal properties <strong>of</strong> sat-<br />

urated water and steam (RP1229, 1939)<br />

4. OPTICS Taylor, L. S., X-ray protection [The first X-ray protection<br />

code] (H15, 1931; H20, 1936, et seq.)<br />

Davis & Gibson, Filters <strong>for</strong> tEe reproduction <strong>of</strong> sunlight<br />

and daylight and <strong>the</strong> determination <strong>of</strong> color tempera-<br />

ture [International standards <strong>for</strong> converting artificial<br />

light to daylight quality and <strong>for</strong> determining color<br />

temperature] (M114, 1931)<br />

Taylor, International comparison <strong>of</strong> X-ray standards<br />

(RP397, 1932)<br />

Mohler, Collisions <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> first and second kind in <strong>the</strong><br />

positive column <strong>of</strong> a caesium discharge (RP485, 1932)<br />

Boeckner & Mohler, Scattering <strong>of</strong> electrons by ions and<br />

<strong>the</strong> mobility <strong>of</strong> electrons in a caesium discharge (RP535,<br />

1933)<br />

Taylor, Radium protection [The first radium protection<br />

code] (H18, 1934; H23, 1938, et seq.)<br />

Tilton & J. K. Taylor, Refractive index and dispersion <strong>of</strong><br />

normal and heavy water (RP703, 1934)<br />

Curtiss, Deflection <strong>of</strong> cosmic rays by a magnetic field<br />

(RP509, 1932)<br />

H<strong>of</strong>fman & Scribner, Purification <strong>of</strong> gallium by fractional<br />

crystallization <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> metal (RP823, 1935)

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