Bureau of Standards. the apparatus shown in this photograph represents a simple and readily usable arrangement of the interferometer for standardizing indicators, extensometers, etc.
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- Date
- 1926
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- Harris & Ewing
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- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
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- photograph
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