Testing airplanes lenses used in map making. Washington, D.C., May 6. Dr. F.E. Washer of the U.S. Bureau of Standards testing the lens for the airplane cameras that are used by the Army and Navy. There are lights in the rear of the columnmeters and exposures are made on the photographic plate in fro

Making prints for $3,000,000 map. Grover M. Plew, AAA laboratory worker, making the finished photographic prints which go into the finished map now being put together by the AAA. Approximately one-third of the entire land surface of the United States is being photographed from the air for the map. 7

Test electric light bulbs for Uncle Sam. Washington, D.C., March 21. Purchasing on an average of 4,000,000 electric light bulbs annually, Uncle Sam is probably one of the largest users of light in the country. The National Bureau of Standards sees that the government gets value received in purchases

Geological Survey, Dept. Interior. Washington, D.C., Mar. 13. E.A. Shuster working with the erocartograph constructing topographies from airplane pictures

Interferometer tests standard gages for automobile manufacturers. Washington, D.C. May 28. I.J. Fullmer of the Bureau of Standards is shown with an interferometer by means of which differences in length are measured in terms of wave-lengths of light to the millionth of an inch. A four-inch square pr

Government discovers method to preserve. (3) Test for fading. D. Levinsky of the Bureau of Standards is pictured exposing a developed film to light from a carbon arc to find whether the photographic image fades. The carbon-arc light simulates daylight closely and therefore is used for many mate

Device for testing testers. Washington, D.C., May 25. Herbert L. Whittemore, Chief Justice of the Engineering Mechanics Sections, U.S. Bureau of Standards, has been awarded the Edward Longstreth medal for his work in developing this device for testing the machines which in turn test construction mat

Inspects film for $3,000,000 map. Photographs for the map are made on a huge roll of film by the aerial cameramen. C.E. Kowaloczyk, AAA worker, is shown inspecting the film for flaws before it is sent in the laboratory to be printed, 7/28/37

Machine performs half a day's manual labor in 5 minutes. Washington, D.C., Dec. 22. H.J. Keegan of the U.S. Bureau of Standards, using the spectrophotometer to determine the different colors in a piece of cloth. It formerly took a man a half a day to make this spectrum analysis but now the machine d