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APR 01, 1950
New radio lab at Boulder
Physics Today

A site in Colorado directly south of the town of Boulder has been selected by the National Bureau of Standards for the construction of a new radio division laboratory. It is expected that the new laboratory facilities will enable the Bureau’s radio propagation research to be considerably extended. The radio division, which is the central Federal group for coordinating such research and for defining primary standards of high frequency electric quantities, is concerned generally with the technology of long‐distance radio communication.

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