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Report of the Thirty-Seventh National Conference on Weights and Measures, 1952

Description: Report of the annual conference on weights and measures, hosted by the U.S. National Bureau of Standards in Washington D.C. It includes conference proceedings, a list of attendees, information about committees and officers, and other reports or commentaries discussed at the meetings.
Date: March 19, 1953
Creator: United States. National Bureau of Standards.
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Report of the Thirty-Sixth National Conference on Weights and Measures, 1951

Description: Report of the annual conference on weights and measures, hosted by the U.S. National Bureau of Standards in Washington D.C. It includes conference proceedings, a list of attendees, information about committees and officers, and other reports or commentaries discussed at the meetings.
Date: December 10, 1951
Creator: United States. National Bureau of Standards.
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Nomograms for Obtaining the Compound Composition of Hydrated Limes from the Oxide Analysis

Description: Report with two nomograms presented for rapidly obtaining the compound composition of hydrated limes from the oxide analysis. The general nomogram can be applied to any commercial hydrated lime and gives values accurate to within 0.3 percent while the special nomogram is applicable only to regularly hydrated and highly hydrated dolomitic limes and is accurate to within 0.1 percent.
Date: December 30, 1949
Creator: Levin, Ernest M.
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Charts of Compressibility Factors and Charts Showing Quantities Delivered by Commercial Cylinders for Hydrogen, Nitrogen, and Oxygen

Description: Two charts are given for each of the gases hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen. The first gives directly the number of standard cubic feet of the gas which a cylinder will deliver. The second chart gives values of the compressibility factor and of the density.
Date: November 17, 1948
Creator: Hoge, Harold J.; Meyers, Cyril H. & McCoskey, Robert E.
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Automotive Antifreezes

Description: From abstract: "A report on when antifreeze should be installed, what strength should be used, and what kind of antifreeze is best suited to the service involved."
Date: November 10, 1948
Creator: Brooks, Donald B. & Streets, Ronald E.
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Report of the Thirty-Third National Conference on Weights and Measures, 1947

Description: Report of the annual conference on weights and measures, hosted by the U.S. National Bureau of Standards in Washington D.C. It includes conference proceedings, a list of attendees, information about committees and officers, and other reports or commentaries discussed at the meetings.
Date: September 1948
Creator: United States. National Bureau of Standards.
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Safety for the Household

Description: Introduction: The purpose of this circular is (a) to emphasize the seriousness of certain risks to life and property frequently occurring in or about the home, (b) to give simple methods of care and caution against such hazards, and (c) to stimulate interest in public measures directed toward safety for household and community.
Date: January 12, 1948
Creator: Owen, S. J.
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Manual of Fire-Loss Prevention of the Federal Fire Council

Description: From preface: "This issue of the Manual of Fire-Loss Prevention, the first edition of which was published in 1934, includes revisions and additions made in part to cover improvements in the past 10 years in methods of preventing and controlling fires. Such methods remain dependent largely on the elimination of preventable fires and abatement of loss from those that originate, by the use of appropriate designs and materials in building construction and the installation of applicable fire alarm a… more
Date: 1945
Creator: Federal Fire Council (U.S.)

Catenary Chart 3

Description: Chart of catenary curve ordinates: "The curve gives approximate values of sag at all points on the catenary curve expressed in per cent of the center sag. The error is negligible for all spans in which the center sag is less than 10% of the span length." It is enlarged from figures in NBS discussion of national electrical safety code (handbook H39).
Date: August 7, 1944
Creator: United States. National Bureau of Standards.
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