Standards of mass
APR 01, 1951
The U.S. standard kilogram (shown slightly less than natural size in the photograph above) plays an important role in the work of the National Bureau of Standards, an agency of the government established fifty years ago by act of Congress to insure the uniformity and accuracy of all standards of measurement.
DOI: 10.1063/1.3067225
The requirements of modern commerce and industry make uniformity in standards of mass throughout the Nation no less important than uniformity of currency. An even higher degree of uniformity is necessary among reference standards of mass kept by research laboratories to maintain high accuracy in scientific weighing.
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Lloyd B. Macurdy, National Bureau of Standards, Washington.
© 1951 American Institute of Physics
