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Excerpt from Annual Report 1949: National Bureau of Standards Left: this high-precision spectrometer determines the refractive index of transparent materials used by the. Bureau in standardizing industrial refractometers. Right: a new precision camera calibrator recently developed by the Bureau is tested for accuracy (p. 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.