[PDF] Weights And Measures Standards Of The United States A Brief History Supersedes Scientific Paper No 17 And Miscellaneous Publication No 64 eBook

Author : Lewis V. Judson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 40,43 MB
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780428812928

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Excerpt from Weights and Measures Standards of the United States: A Brief History The place of Louis A. Fischer in metrology has been so ably described in the Foreword to Miscellaneous Publication No. 64 that it is reproduced here verbatim. As a matter of historical record, it is appropriate here to comment briefly upon Mr. Fischer's career as a metrologist, which began with his entry, in 1880, into the service of the Office of Standard Weights and Measures of the Coast and Geodetic Survey. Starting in the workshop, where he was trained in the fabrication of precise Stand ards, he served in all branches of the work up to the making of the most accurate determinations of length and mass, and by 1898 he was in immediate charge of the weights and measures ofice. When the Bureau of Standards was established in 1901 that office was made a part of the new bureau, and in the new organization became the division of weights and measures of the Bureau of Standards. Mr. Fischer was at once made chief of this division, a position which he filled with conspicuous credit from that time continuously until his death in 1921, except while on duty with the United States Army during World War 1. Throughout the nearly 20 years of his service with the Bureau of Standards, Mr. Fischer was prominently identified with every move ment in the United States having to do with the science of metrology or the supervision of commercial weights and measures. He became one of the world's foremost experts in the comparison of funda mental precision Standards of length, his work at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in the recomparison of certain meter bars being especially noteworthy and laying the foundation for a thorough intercomparison of all national prototypes with the international standard. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.