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Russell A. Kirsch turning SEAC off for what he believed would be the last time in 1954 before it was moved across campus
Photographs; History; Metrology; SEAC computer; 1950s
SEAC was reassembled successfully and ran for another ten years until its dismantling in 1964. This image is part of the SEAC collection. Construction of the Standards Eastern Automatic Computer (SEAC) began in the fall of 1948 in the National...
Historic Images

NBS staff seated at the SEAC computer
Photographs; History; Metrology; SEAC computer; Pictorial works; Technology
SEAC, one of the first computers, was designed and developed at the National Bureau of Standards in the late 1940's. This image is part of the Dimensions October 1975 collection.
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Second and third virial coefficients for hydrogen
Second and third virial coefficients for parahydrogen have been derived from closely spaced PVT data from 24 to 100 °K. They are in good agreement at 100 °K with published data for normal hydrogen. Analytical representations of the combined data...
Journal of Research of NIST and Predecessor Publications

Letter from Secretary of the Treasury transmitting a draft of a bill for the establishment of a National Standardizing Bureau (second page)
Photographs; History; Metrology
Second page of Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, with accompanying communications, a draft of a bill for the establishment of a national standardizing bureau. Document no. 625, House of Representatives, 56th Congress, 1st...
NBS-NIST History and Events

Compositional mapping
Photographs; History; Metrology; Secondary ion mass spectrometry; 1980s
Secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) is a technique used to analyze the composition of solid surfaces and thin films by sputtering the surface of the specimen with a focused primary ion beam and collecting and analyzing ejected secondary ions....
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Dale Newbury uses a secondary ion mass spectrometry instrument , alternate view
Photographs; History; Metrology; Secondary ion mass spectrometry; Instruments; 1980s
Secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) is a technique used to analyze the composition of solid surfaces and thin films by sputtering the surface of the specimen with a focused primary ion beam and collecting and analyzing ejected secondary ions....
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Section sketch of the glass enclosure recommended for the preservation of the Declaration of Independence and the U. S. Constitution
Photographs; History; Metrology; Manuscripts; Conservation and restoration; Preservation and restoration
Section sketch of the glass enclosure recommended for the preservation of the Declaration of Independence and the U. S. Constitution. The backing paper and cover glass position the document, the bronze bracket separates the glass plates from the...
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Plant for testing resistance of walls to fire
Photographs; History; Metrology; Fire prevention; Research
Sections of wall 12 x 16 feet in size were built within rigid portable steel frames (left). After drying, each section was moved via crane to the oil-burning furnace, which formed one wall (far wall in image). After exposure to heat, the sections...
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Automated robot responds to human control
Photographs; History; Metrology; Robotics
See NBS Annual Report FY 1974, p. 18 This image is part of the Robotics Collection. The Robotics Photographic Collection contains images of the NIST robotics laboratory in the mid - 1970s. A major goal of the laboratory was to achieve intelligent...
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Picnic scene at NBS Washington
Photographs; History; Metrology; Extracurricular activities; National Bureau of Standards; NBS
See NBS Standard, March 3, 1976. This image is part of the Extracurricular Activities collection.
NBS-NIST Employees - Historic

Aerial view of NBS Gaithersburg campus construction
Photographs; History; Metrology; Research institutes; 1960s
See p. 506 of "Measures for Progress" by Rexmond C. Cochrane. This image is part of the Gaithersburg Campus Construction collection.
NBS-NIST Campuses, Buildings, and Labs

Staying afloat in a sea of data
Photographs; History; Metrology; SEAC computer; Pictorial works; Technology
See: Dimensions, October 1975, p. 30. This image is part of the Dimensions October 1975 collection.
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Dr. James Albus, former Senior NIST Fellow and chief of the Engineering Laboratory (EL) Intelligent Systems Division
Photographs; History; Metrology; Robotics
See: NBS Standard Nov. 17, 1976; inventor of the Cerebellar Model Articulation Controller - CMAC This image is part of the Robotics Collection. The Robotics Photographic Collection contains images of the NIST robotics laboratory in the mid - 1970s....
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Heat Division physicists Harry Davis and Meyer Waxman with deep-ocean sampler
Photographs; History; Metrology; Oceanography; Research; Instruments
See: NBS Standard, Jan. 26, 1977. This image is part of the Deep Ocean Sampler collection. In the late 1970s the National Bureau of Standards designed an ocean sampling apparatus for use at depths of 10,000 meters, where the pressure was about...
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University of Maryland microbiologist Paul S. Tabor guides the deep-ocean sampler from the deck of a research vessel
Photographs; History; Metrology; Oceanography; Research; Instruments
See: NBS Standard, Jan. 26, 1977. This image is part of the Deep Ocean Sampler collection. In the late 1970s the National Bureau of Standards designed an ocean sampling apparatus for use at depths of 10,000 meters, where the pressure was about...
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Phase equilibria in systems involving the rare-earth oxides. Part II. Solid state reactions in trivalent rare-earth oxide systems
phase equilibria; rare earth oxides; trivalent
Selected mixtures in 21 binary and 9 ternary rare-earth oxide systems were studied by X-ray diffraction after heat treatment at 1,650 C and above. Two graphs were drawn to show specific regions of stability for the various structure types. Each...
Journal of Research of NIST and Predecessor Publications

Solid state reactions involving oxides of trivalent cations
Cations; oxides; solid state reactions; X-ray
Selected mixtures in 69 binary systems involving Al2O3, Ga2O3, Cr2O3, Fe2O3, Sc2O3, In2O3, Y2O3, and the rare earth oxides were studied by X-ray diffraction techniques after heat treatment at various temperatures. A plot of the radii of the A+3...
Journal of Research of NIST and Predecessor Publications

Origin of "very-low-frequency emissions"
very-low-frequency emissions, stream velocity, phase velocity, traveling wave tubes, wave frequency, traveling wave, frequency, whistler
Selective traveling-wave amplification in the outer ionosphere is postulated to explain very-low-frequency emissions, a class of very low-frequency (1 to 30 kilocycles per second) natural noise. By analogy with the mechanism of traveling wave...
Journal of Research of NIST and Predecessor Publications

Liquid Chromatography Column Theory and Technology
selectivity; stationary phase; modified surfaces; reversed-phase; normal-phase; core-shell columns(tutorial)
Journal of Research of NIST and Predecessor Publications

A typical magnetization image produced using SEMPA
Photographs; History; Metrology; Scanning electron microscopes; Research
SEMPA enables researchers to see how the magnetic ordering of a surface is influenced by its physical structure. Such information can be used, for example, to design denser recording media and lighter, more efficient motors. Shown here is a typical...
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