Research Highlights Of The National Bureau Of Standards Annual Report 1960 PDF Download

Excerpt from Research Highlights of the National Bureau of Standards: Annual Report, Fiscal Year 1958 During this past year the National Bureau of Standards was encouraged to examine its programs and responsibilities critically and to estimate its needs in meeting modern requirements for standards, measurement tech niques, and data on the properties of materials. For some time, the Bureau had called attention to the rapid advance ment of technology and to expansion of research noting that these changes have placed a strong burden upon N BS - a responsibility to enlarge its technical programs in support of growing national scientific activities. In the past year, the Bureau received added support from the Congress and from the Administration to strengthen its capability for leadership in the science of. Physical measurement. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.