NBS Site Under Construction
NOV 01, 1961
DOI: 10.1063/1.3057260
On June 14, Secretary of Commerce Luther H. Hodges broke ground for the new National Bureau of Standards Laboratories at Gaithersburg, Maryland. Wielding a gold‐plated shovel last used 46 years ago in the ground‐breaking ceremony for the Bureau’s present chemistry laboratory, the Secretary initiated construction of a project which will eventually result in the moving of all the Bureau’s facilities from north‐west Washington to the Gaithersburg site, a 555‐acre tract in Montgomery County, 20 miles from the District line.
© 1961. American Institute of Physics
