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OCT 01, 1950
NBS Instrument Research Office
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Since June, according to word from the National Bureau of Standards, all basic instrumentation research of the Bureau having to do with the evaluation and improvement of instruments for measuring basic physical quantities has been coordinated under a new Office of Basic Instrumentation. The concept of the Office was developed jointly by the Bureau, the Office of Naval Research, the Office of Air Research, and the Atomic Energy Commission; its program is an extension and enlargement of a project that had been conducted in cooperation with the ONR.

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