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

702 INDEX
testing machines, 96
textile industry, 172
textile mill, NBS (see cotton mill)
textile research, 31, 176, 244, 268, 272—273, 422—423,
479
Textile section, NBS, 176, 423
thermal conductivity, 131, 263
thermal radiation standards, 338
thermocouples, 78
thermometer testing, 37, 58, 61, 65, 78, 500
thermometer, clinical, 59,78, 90
Thermometry section, NB5, 170
thermopile, 204
Thiokol (synthetic rubber), 411n, 412. See also rub-
ber research.
THOMAS, J. L., 109
THOMAS, J. Parnell (Congressman), 491
THOMPSON, John G., 439n
THOMSON, Elihu, 61, 153, apP. M
THOMSON, Sir John J., 12, 139
time intervals and signals, standard, 350, 474—475
time measurement, 78
time, standards, 15, 464, 475n
time-temperature curve, 131
time zones, standard, 4iSn
tire testing, 263, 279, 280, 413, 500
Titanic, 141
TITTMANN, Otto H, 155n
tohiol (see explosives)
toss bombing (see bomb director device)
tracer micrography, 469
tracers (see radioactive labeling)
trade associations, 255, 256
trade secrets (see patents and trade Secrets)
Trade Standards division, NBS, 233, 260, 304, 432.
See also under commercial -
Trading-with-the-Enemy Act (1917), 221n
training program, radio, 192
training program, weights and measures, 90
TRALLES, Johann Georg, app. A, app. B
transatlantic radio system, 192
transformers, current, 115
transistor (see semiconductors; diode; miniaturiza-
tion)
Transportation Corps (Army), 277
Treasury Department, 16, 18, 24, 26, 27, 28, 30, 31, 32,
34, 39, 44, 45, 52, 53, 68, 69, 72, 79, 124, 302n,
370n, 416, 417, 423, 460. See alto Secretaries of
the Treasury by name: Gage; Gallatin; Ingham;
McLane; Woodbury.
Treaty of the Meter (1875), 29—30
tritium, 341n
troposphere research, 474
TROUGHTON, Edward, 26, app. A
Troughton yard (see yard)
TROWBRIDGE, John, 12-13
troy weight (see under pound)
Truman Committee, 413
TRUMAN, Harry S., 428, 435, 445, 446, 492
trusts (see monopolies)
"Tuballoy," 378
TUCKERMAN, Louis B., 147n, 273, 355, 443n
Tufts College, 454
tungsten-filament lamp (see under lamp)
Tuscaloosa, Ala., field laboratory, 310n, 331
TUVE, Merle A., 369, 390, 404
TYNDALL, E. P. 1., llln, 245, 273, 337
typewriter controversy, 261
U
U-boat menace, 161, 194, 204, 372, 374—375, 403, 417,
420
ultrasonic laboratory, NBS, 451
ultrasonic mechanics, 15
ultraviolet lamps, 338
ultraviolet radiation standard, 338
UnAmerican Activities, House Committee (HUAAC).
491—492
underwater radio transmission, 194
Underwriters' Laboratories, 131
United States Testing Company, 500
uranium and uranium research, 12, 147, 174, 300, 357.
360—362, 363, 368, 377, 378, 379—380, 382, 383, 3M
385—387
uranium, estimatees of usefulness, 362, 378
Uranium Section (NDRC); Uranium Committee
(OSRD). See Advisory Committee on Uraniom.
UREY, Harold C., 357, 358, 359, 363, 379, 382, 383, 444
U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, 405, 419
U.S. Mint, 416
U.S. Naval Radiotelegraphic Laboratory (see Labora-
tory for Special Radio Transmissisn Research)
U.S. Rubber Co., 14
U.S.S.R. (Soviet), 356, 406, 423
utilization of waste materials, 263, 266, 267—268, 349
V
vacuum tube (see electron tube)
VANDERLIP, Frank A, 40, 52, 54
VanDUSEN, Milton S., 443n
VanKEUREN, Harold L., 162
very high frequency (vhf) radio transmission, 293—294
Vidal Research Corp., 400, 401
VINAL, George W., 109, 24.5, 281, 392n, 484
VINCENT, George E., 215, 219
VINOGRADOFF, Dmltri I., 443
Virginia, University of, 74, 363, 380
visibility curve, standard, 337
Visiting Committee to NBS (see under NBS Visiting
Committee).
volt, 32, 80, 105, 107
voltage measurement, 80
voltameter, silver, 80, 104, 105, 245, 469
voltmeter, 58, 115
volume, Hassler's standards of, 26—27
volumetric determination, 151—152
VOORHEES, Samuel 5., 94
'V
WGY (General Electric), 293
WWV and WWVH (see radio stations, NBS)
WAIDNER, Charles W., 65, 67, 74, 78, 99n, 101, 111,
127, 142n, 234, 239, 240
WALCOTT, Charles D., 160