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National Physical Laboratory Biography Biography
National Physical Laboratory (NPL) was founded in 1900 at Bushy House, Teddington, London "for standardising and verifying instruments, for testing materials, and for the determination of physical constants." It is one of the oldest standardising laboratories in the world. It was originally conceived as an extension of Kew Observatory, which was situated round the corner in Old Deer Park at Richmond, and for the first 18 years of its existence, NPL was under the control of the Royal Society. Since its establishment, the research work at NPL has included all branches of physics, light, electricity and magnetism, radio communication, engineering, metallurgy, aeronautics and ship design. Many of Britain's most renowned scientists have been involved in work at NPL, including Alan Turing, Louis Essen and Donald Davies. Some of the most notable achievements carried out at NPL include the invention of the Automatic Computer Engine (ACE), packet switching, radar and the atomic clock. Their current address is National Physical Laboratory, Hampton Road, Teddington, Middlesex, TW11 0LW.

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National Physical Laboratory reports and correspondence. Includes: - National Physical Laboratory report entitled ‘Experiments on a model of the rigid airship R100’, including five figure drawings - National Physical Laboratory report on tensile tests of 50-ft lengths of stranded cables, including six graphs - Correspondence with the National Physical Laboratory - National Physical Laboratory report entitled ‘Further experiments on airship model M.19. Scale 1/200, including two pages of figure drawings - Report entitled ‘Resistance coefficients of 1/240th scale airship model M.19.’, including two figure drawings - Report entitled ‘Measurements of the resistance of three rigid airship hulls’, including three figure drawings - National Physical Laboratory report entitled ‘Report on measurements of the hinge moments on top vertical fin of 5 x 10⁶ cu.ft. airship model’, including two figure drawings - Report entitled ‘Further experiments on a model of a 5 million cubic feet airship’, including five pages of figure drawings - Report entitled ‘Experiments on a model of a 5 million cubic feet airship for the Airship Guarantee Company’, including eight pages of figure drawings. The report is dated March 1924 and is marked ‘Confidential: This paper is the property of the Airship Guarantee Co. Ltd.’
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1 file
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English
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FILE
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Science Museum, London

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Airship Guarantee Co Ltd Biography Biography
The Airship Guarantee Co Ltd was created with the sole purpose of building the R100 airship. It was a subsidary of Vickers. Its Managing Director was Commander Sir Dennistoun Burney and the design team was led by Barnes Wallis.

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