MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATIONS. [For Publications in Following List that are Out of Print or Procurable Only from Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., see the supplement to this Circular.] MI. Manual of Inspection and Information for Weights and Measures Officials. This manual is designed primarily for official sealers and inspectors appointed to enforce weights and measures laws or ordinances, but it will also be of use to any one who has occasion to inspect and test weights and measures and weighing and measuring devices of the types ordinarily found in commercial use. It contains specifications and tolerances and complete instructions for the testing of all kinds of scales, length measures, liquid and dry capacity measures, etc.; general instructions concerning the enforcement of law; lists of standards and apparatus; a method of keeping office records, etc. Appendixes are included containing Federal weights and measures laws, with rules and regulations, the model State law in relation to weights and measures, a description of the metric system, and general tables, conversion tables, and tables of equivalents. (Nov. 14, 1918.). 246 pp. M2. The International Metric System of Weights and Measures. This pamphlet gives a brief historical sketch and description of the metric system, its various units and their uses, shows the methods of formation of the various tables, and closes with the statement of the legal status of the metric system in the United States and two pages of equivalents of customary and metric measures. 15 pp. Price, 10 cents. (Chart.) M3. The International Metric System. This graphic chart is printed in colors and shows the comparison of the customary with the metric weights and measures, including the yard, meter, avoirdupois pound, half troy pound; quart, liter, and liquid quart; foot and 3 decimeters; inch and 25 milometers. The chart is designed for use in schools, laboratories, shops, and exporting and importing offices. It gives a concise statement of the metric system and the method of forming names of the units and the tables and gives the more important equivalents between the customary and the metric measures. M4. First Annual Conference on the Weights and Measures of the United States (1905). Contains a record of the proceedings of the first meeting of State weights and measures officials and other delegates, which was called by the Bureau of Standards with the intention of assisting weights and measures officials so as to enable them to make a thorough and efficient inspection and test of weights and measures. A further purpose was to bring about a close cooperation between the State officials and the Bureau of Standards, with a view to obtaining the enactment of proper weights and measures laws in the States with as high a degree of uniformity among them as the varying conditions in the different States would permit, and to the end that the benefits of a proper enforcement of adequate laws on this subject might be brought to the people. A paper was read at this conference giving a short history of the standard weights and measures of the United States, tracing the source of the fundamental standards recognized in this country and including a list of the standards furnished the various States by the Federal Government, and reports were given by the delegates on the status of the weights and measures situation in their respective States. The laboratories of the Bureau were open to the delegates so that they might get information as to methods employed at the Bureau in testing weights and measures and weighing and measuring apparatus. 46 pp. Price, 10 cents. M5. Second Annual Conference on the Weights and Measures of the United States (1906). At this meeting reports were made by the delegates on various questions affecting weights and measures in their respective States, bringing out the extent of the organization of weights and measures work in the different States represented, and throwing light upon various ways in which fraud is perpetrated on the public; a paper was read by the secretary of the conference dealing with the weights and measures inspection services of Great Britain, Germany, France, and Austria; the question as to whether a weights and measures official should be compensated by fees or salary was discussed; and the matter of drawing up a model law was referred to the executive committee. 60 pp. Price, 15 cents. M6. Third Annual Conference on the Weights and Measures of the United States (1907). At this conference an address was made by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor; reports were given by the various delegates on matters of interest affecting weights and measures; a paper dealing with the kinds of weights and measures fraud encountered and various sources of loss to the public was read; and proposed national and State legislation along weights and measures lines was discussed and adopted in tentative form. 110 pp. Price, 25 cents. M7. Fourth Annual Conference on the Weights and Measures of the United States (1908). Contains an address by the Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Labor and by the president of the conference; an opinion of the solicitor of the Department of Commerce and Labor, approved by the Attorney General, as to the extent of the authority in the weights and measures field granted to Congress under the Constitution of the United States; reports of delegates from the various States; discussion of proposed national legislation; resolutions recommending that authority be conferred upon the Bureau of Standards to pass upon all types of weighing and measuring apparatus before they be permitted in use, urging Congress to enact a law requiring containers to be marked with their net contents, and recommending other national weights and measures legislation. 78 pp. Price, 15 cents. M8. Fifth Annual Conference on the Weights and Measures of the United States (1910). Contains an address by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor; report ot the secretary of the conference; reports of the delegates; short reporf on the weights and measures investigation conducted by the Bureau of Standards; paper dealing generally with the subject of weights and measures; discussion of weights and measures bills before Congress; resolutions indorsing Bureau of Standards weights and measures investigation, recommending the passage by Congress of a net-contents-of-container law, and setting forth that the high cost of living is intimately associated with weights and measures; report of committee on the formation of a full weight and measure association, and of the committee on constitution and by-laws. 123 pp. Price, 15 cents. M9. Sixth Annual Conference on the Weights and Measures of the United States (1911). Contains addresses by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor and the president of the conference; report of the secretary of the conference; reports of delegates; report on an investigation of the condition of weights and measures in commercial use in the United States conducted by the Bureau of Standards; paper on railroad-track scales; discussions on tolerances for weighing and measuring apparatus, legislation for uniform sizes of containers, a bill to fix sizes of certain containers, and uniform State legislation governing weights and measures; report of committee on organization of a full weight and measure league; report of the committee on State legislation; and appendix containing draft of proposed uniform law on weights and measures for adoption by the States. 158 pp. Price, 20 cents. MIO. Seventh Annual Conference on the Weights and Measures of the United States (1912). Contains an address by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor; reports of delegates; address by the chairman of the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures of the House of Representatives; report of the secretary of the conference; papers on the subjects of legislation enacted by the various States during the preceding year, method of keeping sealers' records, and platform scales; address by the State superintendent of weights and measures of New York and by the commissioner of weights and measures of New York City; discussions on the formation of a national association of weights and measures, on the net-contents-of-container law, on the changing of the date of holding the conference, and on placing weights and measures officials under civil service; reference to an inspection of weights and measures conditions throughout the United States conducted by the Bureau of Standards; review of weights and measures bills pending before Congress; report on the progress made by the committee on tolerances and specifications; resolution favoring the enactment by Congress of a law requiring all foodstuffs put up in packages to be marked in terms of standard weight or measure; answers to questions relating to the inspection of scales, double-ended measures, bottomless measures, counter tacks, wooden dishes, inspection of meters, sale of ice, sale of lard in pails, and testing scales of railroads and express companies. 186 pp. Price, 20 cents. MII. Eighth Annual Conference on the Weights and Measures of the United States (1913). Contains addresses by the Secretary of Commerce, the Assistant Secretary of Commerce, and the president of the conference; report by the secretary of the conference; reports by the delegates; remarks by the secretary of internal affairs of Pennsylvania; papers on the subjects of weights and measures legislation enacted by the States during the preceding year, content-of-container law, Federal regulation of weighing and measuring apparatus, testing of dry gas meters, uniformity of State laws on weights per bushel of commodities, difference in the amount of a bushel of a commodity when sold by weight and when sold by measure, testing of water meters, design and construction of scales, notes on scales, functions of a State sealer of weights and measures, testing of capacity measures, and seals and methods of sealing; discussions on proposed amendments and additions to the model State law on weights and measures, on the necessity for civil-service protection for sealers of weights and measures, on the need for inspection of scales owned by the United States, and on the place, time, and duration of sessions of the next meeting; reports of the committee on resolutions and of the committee on tolerances and specifications; resolutions indorsing a bill to establish a standard barrel, favoring the adoption of the metric carat weight, favoring civil service for weights and measures officials, and recommending that the Bureau of Standards be given authority to pass upon and authorize the use of weighing and measuring apparatus; answers to questions relating to the authority to test scales in postoffices, the weight of a gallon of milk, and the weighing of coal mined in West Virginia; and appendix containing the model State law on the subject of weights and measures. 291 pp. Price, 35 cents. M12. Ninth Annual Conference on the Weights and Measures of the United States (1914). Contains addresses by the Secretary of Commerce and by the president of the conference; report of the secretary of the conference; papers on the subjects of the net-weight amendment to the national food and drugs act, the metric system, creamery, prescription and jewelers' weighing and measuring appliances, glass graduates suitable for weights and measures officials, the weights and measures of Porto Rico, and the necessity of maintaining scale levers level and the lever connections plumb; announcement of an inspection and demonstration of the railroad-track scale equipment of the Bureau of Standards and of a hearing before the House Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures; discussions on the Tuttle-Weeks produce-barrel bill, on tolerances and specifications, and on the place of the next meeting; reports of committee on constitution and by-laws and committees on resolutions; reports and miscellaneous papers submitted by various State and local weights and measures officials; and answers to questions relating to the size of beer barrel, proposed legislation in Virginia in relation to selling dry commodities by weight or count, and the relation of State universities to weights and measures work. 176 pp. Price, 20 cents. M13. Tenth Annual Conference on the Weights and Measures of the United States (1915). Contains addresses by the Secretary of Commerce and by the president of the conference; reports by delegates; report of the secretary; remarks by the collector of internal revenue of the Philippine Islands; report of railroad-track scale tests conducted by the Bureau of Standards; papers on the subjects of testing of electric meters, a method of adjusting railroadtrack scales, automatic scales, weights and measures work from the standpoint of the efficiency engineer, system of keeping records, and the standard-barrel law; discussion on the Ashbrook bill; report of committee on constitution and by-laws and of committee on tolerances and specifications, and discussions thereon; resolutions relating to the appointment of a committee to investigate elevator, hopper, and grain scales, in opposition to fee system of inspection, recommending uniformity of legislation and of tolerances and specifications, for establishing a national board of examiners, inviting scale experts and manufacturers to give papers at next conference, and favoring sale of dry commodities by weight; section requiring sale of dry commodities by weight added to model law; and appendix containing the three forms of the model State law. 254 pp. Price, 50 cents. M14. Eleventh Annual Conference on the Weights and Measures of the United States (1916). Contains an address by the Secretary of Commerce; remarks by the president of the conference; report of the secretary; reports by the delegates; papers on the subjects of proper publicity for a weights and measures department, the selection and maintenance of apparatus in industrial plants, liquid measuring pumps, inspection and testing of track scales, installation and maintenance of track scales, recent development in heavy track-scale construction, and regulations for the weighing of coke; remarks by various manufacturers; discussion and indorsement of a bill before Congress to substitute centigrade for the Fahrenheit scale of temperature in Government publications; discussion of proper method of sale of fruits, vegetables, etc.; report of committee on tolerances and specifications and discussion thereon; reports of the committee on constitution and by-laws and of the committee on the metric system; remarks by the secretary of internal affairs of Pennsylvania; resolutions concerning the observance of a national weights and measures week, the sale of wrapped meats, the indorsement of the metric system, the appointment of a committee on public education, and the passage of Ashbrook bill; and appendix containing the specifications and tolerances for weights and measures and weighing and measuring devices, as adopted by the conference, and paper on measuring pumps. 194+44+27 pp. Price, 35 cents. M15. Some Technical Methods of Testing Miscellaneous Supplies, Including Paints and Paint Materials, Inks, Lubricating Oils, Soaps, etc. In this publication are assembled methods, chiefly chemical, which have been found useful in a large number of cases in testing miscellaneous materials purchased either under definite specifications or examined for prospective purchases in competition with other samples of a similar nature. As a general rule, the methods described are not original but have been compiled from a variety of sources and modifications introduced when necessary. (Nov. 15, 1916.) 68 pp. Price, 15 cents. M16. Report to the International Committee on Electric Units and Standards. The London conference on electric units in 1908 appointed a committee to maintain the standards and to fix the value of the Weston normal cell. The committee arranged a joint investigation of the fundamental electrical standards, which was conducted at this Bureau in 1910 by representatives of the national laboratories of England, France, Germany, and this country. Important intercomparisons were made of the resistance standards, the standard cells, and the silver voltameters of the four countries. The value finally recommended for the Weston normal cell was 1.0183 international volts at 20°C. (Jan. 1, 1912.) 207 pp. Price 30 cents. M17. Copper-Wire Table (English and Metric). This card gives two abbreviated copper-wire tables, in English units For more complete information on the electrical properties of copper see M18. National Bureau of Standards-Description of work of Gives brief historical sketch of the Bureau; describes the various branches of its work. The paper is descriptive and general in character. This publication is now being combined with material for a new edition of Circular No. 1. M19. Proceedings of the Second Annual Textile Conference held at the Bureau of Standards (1917). Gives proceedings of a textile conference at the Bureau at which representatives of the industries and the Government and textile technologists were present. A series of papers on important textile problems was given by mill superintendents, scientific investigators, and technical experts, followed in each case by pertinent discussion. The program included such topics as humidity in mills, commercial grading, nomenclature, textile laboratories, methods of testing blankets, service tests, cotton and wool, classification of silks, valuation of dies, testing of Army cloth, and the like. 87 PP. M20. Laws Concerning the Weights and Measures of the United States (First Edition, 1904). This work contains the weights and measures laws of the United States, of the various States, and of Alaska, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Philippine Islands, and Porto Rico. A table giving the legal weights per bushel of commodities, as fixed by these laws, is included. State and National Laws Concerning the Weights and Measures of the United States (Second Edition, 1912). This work contains the weights and measures laws of the United States, of the various States, and of Alaska, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Philippine Islands, and Porto Rico. A table giving the legal weights per bushel of commodities, as fixed by these laws, is included. M21. "Metric Manual for Soldiers." 16 pp. |