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Allan Eustis, NIST Office of the Director

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Collaborative 2.0 ToolsNIST –Centric Instructional ContentNIST Scientist InvolvementWhat works? What doesn’t work?

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“To measure is to know.”Lord Kelvin

EARLY NIST:NEED FOR STANDARDS 1904 BALTIMORE FIRE

U.S. Becomes a Signatory to the Treaty of the Metre 1879

Nascent electrical industry needed standards

American measuring instruments sent abroad for calibration

Consumer products and construction materials uneven in quality and reliability

Eight different “authoritative’ values for the gallon

Bureau of Standards Established by Congress in 1901

• Authority Given to Congress for Weights and Measures by the U.S. Constitution

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EARLY NIST:NEED FOR STANDARDS 1904 BALTIMORE FIRE

600 Different Fire Hydrant couplings across the US

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