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A century of excellence in measurements, standards, and technology: a chronicle of selected NBS/NIST publications, 1901-2000.

Author(s) : NIST, LIDE D. R.

Type of monograph: Other

Summary

This document, published in the centennial framework (1901-2001) of NIST, consists of vignettes describing some of the classic publications from its first century in all areas of science and technology. Extract from the table of contents: testing of thermal insulators; thermodynamic properties of water and steam for power generation; selected values of chemical thermodynamic properties; cryogenic engineering; scaling analysis of thermodynamic properties in the critical region of fluids; design and evaluation criteria for energy conservation in new buildings; computer program for heating and cooling loads in buildings; methods for testing and rating the performance of heating and air-conditioning systems; materials at low temperatures; strain effects in superconducting compounds; a practical Josephson voltage standard at one volt; observation of atoms laser-cooled below the Doppler limit.

Details

  • Original title: A century of excellence in measurements, standards, and technology: a chronicle of selected NBS/NIST publications, 1901-2000.
  • Record ID : 2001-3006
  • Languages: English
  • Subject: Regulation
  • Publication: US Department of Commerce, NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) - United states/United states
  • Publication date: 2001/01
  • Collection:
  • Source: Source: NIST SP 958; 395 p. (22.8 x 29); fig.; phot.; ref.; index.
  • Document available for consultation in the library of the IIR headquarters only.

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