...Standards, founded 1n 1901, is authorized by statute (US Code, Title 15, Ch. 7, sec. 272) to undertake "The custody, maintenance, and development of the...and methods for making measurements consistent with these standards. * * *" Under this authority the National Bureau of Standards has sought to refine...

...1901, as amended by Congress in Public Law 619, 1950. These include the development and maintenance of the national standards of measurement and the provision...and methods for making measurements consistent with these standards; the determination of physical constants and properties of materials; the development...

...and Activities :tions of the National Bureau of Standards include the development and maintenance of standards of measurement and the provision of means and methods for making measure stent with these standards; the determination of physical constants and properties of he development...

...Enabling Act of the Bureau, where, in the enumeration of Bureau functions, authorization is made for "the provision of means and methods for making measurements consistent with those [the national] standards," "the development of methods for testing . . . mechanisms," "cooperation...

...Commerce — and through it, the National Bureau of Standards — has been charged by the Congress with the custody, maintenance, and development of the national standards of measurement, and with the provision of means and methods for making measurements consistent with those standards. To...

...Commerce the important bureau of standards. The functions of the bureau are the custody of the standards, the comparison of standards used in scientific investigations,...manufacturing, commerce, and educational institutions, with standards adopted or recognized by the government ; the testing and calibration of standard measuring...

...Commerce the important bureau of standards. The functions of the bureau are the custody of the standards, the comparison of standards used in scientific investigations,...manufacturing, commerce, and educational institutions, with standards adopted or recognized by the government ; the testing and calibration of standard measuring...

...regulatory authority in this area, its organic legislation (31 Stat. 1449) specifically authorizes "The custody, maintenance, and development of the...making measurements consistent with those standards . . . and cooperation with the States in securing uniformity in weights and measures laws and methods...

...is a subdivision of the Department of Commerce. 8 Its functions consist in the custody of standards; the comparison of standards used in scientific investigations,...manufacturing, commerce, and educational institutions with those adopted M9 F. (2d) 306. '59 F. (2d) 381. ' See Act of March 3,1901,31 Stat. 1449; Act of February...

...is a subdivision of the Department of Commerce.8 Its functions consist in the custody of standards; the comparison of standards used in scientific investigations,...manufacturing, commerce, and educational institutions with those adopted '49 F. (2d) 306. •59 F. (2d) 381. 1 See Act of March 3, 1901, 31 Stat. 1449; Act of...