very-low-frequency, radiation, spectra, lightning, Boulder, Salt Lake City, Palo Alto, oscilloscope, atmospherics, sferics, ionospheric reflection, skywave, groundwave, pulse
Spectral analyses are given of the groundwave portion of 33 sferic waveforms recorded from cloud-to-ground lightning discharges which occurred at distances ranging between about 150 and 600 kilometers from Boulder, Colo. Frequencies of peak energy...
This extensometer, developed at the National Bureau of Standards for the Department of the Air Force, is capable of measuring strains under laboratory conditions at temperatures up to 1,500 degrees C even when the temperature is changing at 50...
atom laser; atom traps; Bose-Einstein condensation; evaporative cooling; superfluids and supergasses
As atoms get colder, they start to behave more like waves and less like particles. Cool a cloud of identical atoms so cold that the wave of each atom starts to overlap with the wave of its neighbor atom, and all of a sudden you wind up with a sort...
Photographs; History; Metrology; Fire prevention; Research; 1930s; Women in science
Vertical burning test of fabrics impregnated with ammonium phosphate for flame proofing. March 16, 1936. Investigator: Marjorie W. Sandholzer. See "Flameproofing of Textiles." NBS Circular 455. August 1946. This image is part of the Fire Research...
Vernon H. Dibeler (1918-2016) was a physical chemist at the National Bureau of Standards from 1942-1975. Source: Vernon H. Dibeler biographical file, NIST Archives.
Vernon H. Dibeler (1918-2016) was a physical chemist at the National Bureau of Standards from 1942-1975. Source: Vernon H. Dibeler biographical file, NIST Archives.
Hassler, F. R. (Ferdinand Rudolph), 1770-1843; United States Coast Survey; Metrology; Weights and measures; Compass
This vernier compass was used by Ferdinand R. Hassler to survey the U.S. Atlantic Coast in the early 19th century. Hassler, a Swiss immigrant, was appointed as the first Superintendent of the Survey of the Coast by President Madison in 1816. Many...
This Vernier caliper was made by Joseph Saxton, the Chief Mechanic of the Office of Weights and Measures of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, between 1843 and 1873.
Sound velocity measurements on liquid propane from 90 to 300 K and for pressures to 34 MPa are reported. Also included are saturated liquid sound velocities from 90 to 290 K. The data were combined with Prho T data to compute compressibility and...
Photographs; History; Metrology; 1960s; Women in science
Velma Burns of the National Bureau of Standards Photometry Division in 1961. She is adjusting a photoelectric cell used for luminance calibrations. She helped develop luminance calibration techniques to achieve uniformity of brightness for...