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Woman taking readings in leather research
Shoes; Materials; Testing; Leather; Research; Photographs; History; Metrology; 1940s; Laboratories; Women in science
This image is part of the Leather Research collection. The Leather Research collection consists of images of National Bureau of Standards (NBS) employees engaged in leather research during periods ranging from 1919 to the early 1960s. After the...
Historic Images

A forced-draft oven used for drying leather bends before impregnation and for removing solvent afterwards in the NBS pilot plant
Shoes; Materials; Testing; Leather; Research; Photographs; History; Metrology; 1930s; Laboratories
This image is part of the Leather Research collection. The Leather Research collection consists of images of National Bureau of Standards (NBS) employees engaged in leather research during periods ranging from 1919 to the early 1960s. After the...
Historic Images

Shoe testing machine designed by E. L. Wallace for determining the wearing quality of shoe uppers [postcard]
Shoes; Materials; Testing; Leather; Research; Photographs; History; Metrology; 1930s
Class: leather. This image is part of the Leather Research collection. The Leather Research collection consists of images of National Bureau of Standards (NBS) employees engaged in leather research during periods ranging from 1919 to the early...
Historic Images

Physical properties of leather laboratory equipment [postcard]
Shoes; Materials; Testing; Leather; Research; Photographs; History; Metrology; 1920s
Laboratory equipment used for preparing leather for the various physical tests such as strength, durability, moisture resistance, and pliability. Class: VII- organic and fibrous; 4-leather. This image is part of the Leather Research collection. The...
Historic Images

Experimental tannery
Shoes; Materials; Testing; Leather; Research; Photographs; History; Metrology; 1920s
Class: VII- organic and fibrous; 4-leather. Series of vats and incidental tanning equipment used for investigating the merits of materials for tanning and for preparing standard leather samples under controlled conditions for chemical and physical...
Historic Images

Microscopic examination of leather [postcard]
Shoes; Materials; Testing; Leather; Research; Photographs; History; Metrology; 1920s
Cross-section of typical vegetable-tanned leather used for sole leather. Note the layer of fine fibers (grain) at the top through which the hair penetrates and the network of small and large fibers underneath. Microscopic examinations of leather...
Historic Images

Testing leather for strength and stretch using a horizontal pendulum type tester [postcard]
Shoes; Materials; Testing; Leather; Research; Photographs; History; Metrology; 1910s; Laboratories
A dumbbell shaped specimen was used to ensure failure within a restricted portion of the sample where the stretch was measured by means of dividers. The breaking strength of heavy leathers varied from 500 to 800 pounds per inch of width. This image...
Historic Images

Leather wearing machine used to test the durability of sole leather and leather substitutes [postcard]
Shoes; Materials; Testing; Leather; Research; Photographs; History; Metrology; 1910s
The conditions of walking are approximated by having the test pieces travel in a circular path on the surface of an abrasive disk. Class: VII-organic and fibrous; 4-leather. This image is part of the Leather Research collection. The Leather...
Historic Images

Service tests on shoes made to determine durability of different parts of soles and uppers [postcard]
Shoes; Materials; Testing; Leather; Research; Photographs; History; Metrology; 1910s
Weekly inspections were made and the results correlated with laboratory investigations. This image is part of the Leather Research collection. The Leather Research collection consists of images of National Bureau of Standards (NBS) employees...
Historic Images

Oral history interview of Dan Shechtman, June 17, 2015/ [persons present]: J. William (Bill) Gadzuk, Bob Shull, Mark Stiles, Jim Schooley, Frank Biancaniello, Steve Ridder, Kristen Frederick-Frost.
Shechtman, Dan
Oral history interview of Dr. Dan Shechtman conducted at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland on June 17, 2015. Dr. Shechtman, the Phillip Tobias Professor of Materials Science at the Technion in Haifa,...
NBS-NIST Oral Histories

Determination of the Viscoelastic Shear Modulus Using Forced Torsional Vibrations
shear modulus; torsion; vibrations; viscoelastic
A forced torsional vibration system has been developed to measure the shear storage and loss moduli on right circular cylindrical specimens whose diameter can vary from 2 to 9 cm and whose length can vary from 2 to 15 cm. The method and apparatus...
Journal of Research of NIST and Predecessor Publications

SAFARI (Semi-Automatic Fault Anticipation Recordering Instrument)
The National Bureau of Standards Project SAFARI (Semi-Automatic Failure Anticipation Recording Instrumentation) came into being to meet two overriding needs: To develop practical techniques, mechanisms, and procedures for acquiring a large volume...
NIST Museum Artifacts

Coils for JM Seismometer
Pictured is an example of first pickup coil X-1 for the magnetic transducer of the prototype J M Seismometer. It was wound by Harry Matheson at the National Bureau of Standards. Also pictured is a Half-Coils Cut from an experimental high impedance...
NIST Museum Artifacts

The solution to a nonlinear Lamm equation in the Faxn approximation
Sedimentation; Lamm equation; concentration dependence; nonlinear
An exact solution in the Faxn approximation is given for the Lamm equation in which the sedimentation coefficient is related to concentration as s = s0(1 - kc). It is shown that the solution in this case can be expressed in terms of the solution to...
Journal of Research of NIST and Predecessor Publications

Kelvin Watt Balance (No. 460)
This is one of a set of four Kelvin balances purchased by the National Bureau of Standards at the end of 1902. It has a linear fixed scale 0-650. With a current of 110 volts, a 500 ohm multiplier was used in the moving coil circuit. As a secondary...
NIST Museum Artifacts

Magnetic wire to punched tape converter and tape-controlled printer
SEAC computer--Photograph collections.
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 Bureau of Standards (NBS) Electronics Division by a group under Samuel N. Alexander, and with...
Historic Images

Oral history interview of Bourdon F. Scribner, February 24, 2003 / by Lisa Greenhouse, Bill Martin, and David Lide
Scribner, Bourdon
Bourdon Scribner, former Chief of the Spectrochemistry division, discusses his career at NBS, including working with Dr. William Meggers, his testimony before Congress on the AD-X2 battery additive, and his visits to the Bureau when his father,...
NBS-NIST Oral Histories

Bourdon F. Scribner
BOURDON F. SCRIBNER NBS/NIST: 1927–1973 INDUCTED: 2018 B: 1910, Westernport, Maryland D: 2007, Annapolis, Maryland EDUCATION: George Washington University, BS (Chemistry), 1933 University of Maryland, MS (Chemistry), 1939 ...
NIST Gallery of Distinguished Scientists, Engineers, and Administrators

Russell B. Scott
RUSSELL B. SCOTT Inducted: 1988 Citation: For cryogenic research, including the thermal properties of hydrogen isotopes, and management of the Boulder Laboratories Tenure: 1928‑1965 Birth: 1902, Ludlow, Kentucky Death: 1967, Boulder,...
NIST Gallery of Distinguished Scientists, Engineers, and Administrators

Oral history interview of Galen Schubauer, May 20, 1981.
Schubauer, Galen
Galen Schubauer discusses his 38 year career in aerodynamics research at NBS. He highlights his work in the wind tunnels developing equipment for measureing turbulence using the hot-wire anemometer, investigating the effectiveness of damping...
NBS-NIST Oral Histories

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