Senate panel weighs expanding weights and measures bureau
A commerce committee bill would transform the Office of Standard Weights and Measures into a national standardizing bureau. It would extend its reach to photometry and other modern measurements to ensure accurate light, color, and related testing for industry and utilities.
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Senate Committee On Commerce
Office of Standard Weights and Measures
National Standardizing Bureau
United States
Germany
Great
Britain
France
Austria
Russia
British Shipping Output In 1900 Rises With Steel Tonnage Lead
The year 1900 shows UK shipping output at about 1,501,855 tons dominated by steam tonnage, with steel vessels comprising over 99 percent of tonnage and iron vessels mainly trawlers. Germany supplied the largest work for British shipbuilders, while the United States and France follow in order. Net under construction fell about 3,000 tons from the previous year.
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United Kingdom
Itkee
Ereder
Germany
United States
Erica
Frahce Hnkeo
Rocking Chairs Signal Cultural Exchange in Germany
The New York Press notes Germany's thirty-year advance and a growing demand for rocking chairs, with H. W. Harris reporting to the state department that in parts of Germany the chairs are still unknown yet increasingly popular across the empire.
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United States
Dogin
Germany
Awith Guar
America
H. W. Harris
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Arbuckle Bros. Nation Dept
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