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

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Dr. Frank A. Wolff, Jr.,<br />

who was able to certify<br />

standards <strong>of</strong> electromo-<br />

tive <strong>for</strong>ce bus continued<br />

to send his o<strong>the</strong>r electri.<br />

cal measuring equipment<br />

to England and Germany<br />

<strong>for</strong> verification at <strong>the</strong><br />

time this portrait was<br />

made.<br />

57<br />

Mr. Louis A. Fischer, veri-<br />

fier <strong>of</strong> weights and meas-<br />

ures, who came to <strong>the</strong><br />

<strong>of</strong>fice in <strong>the</strong> Coast and<br />

Geodetic Survey in 1880<br />

at <strong>the</strong> age <strong>of</strong> 16, when<br />

<strong>the</strong>re were still men<br />

<strong>the</strong>re who had worked<br />

with Hassler. This pic-<br />

ture may have been<br />

taken shortly after <strong>the</strong><br />

<strong>Bureau</strong> was founded,<br />

but no laser than 1910,<br />

<strong>the</strong> year Mr. Fischer<br />

began his weights and<br />

measures crusade across<br />

<strong>the</strong> Nation.

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