The National Institute of Standards and Technology is an agency of the United States Department of Commerce whose mission is to promote American innovation and industrial competitiveness. NIST's activ
A chart of Bureau of Standards activities, 1915
A mass spectrometer in use at the NBS in 1948
The Bureau of Standards headquarters in Gaithersburg, Maryland being constructed in 1964.
Advanced Measurement Laboratory Complex in Gaithersburg
Samuel Wesley Stratton
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Samuel Wesley Stratton was an administrator in the American government, physicist, and educator. A physicist by training, Stratton proposed the U.S. Bureau of Standards and was appointed its first dir
Dr. Stratton in the Evening Star, 1901
Stratton in 1905
Stratton at the Fourth Conference International Union for Cooperation in Solar Research at Mount Wilson Observatory, 1910
Autochrome by Auguste Léon, 1920