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THE recent opening of the National Physical Laboratory, as described in NATURE on March 27, marked an epoch in the advance of science into the commercial development of this country. Equipped as the Laboratory will be with the best appliances for testing materials and instruments of precision, for fixing standards of measurement and comparison, it will supply that which, in other countries, has already been recognised as a vital necessity to national commercial prosperity.
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D., R. The Proposed Experimental Tank for Testing Ship Models for Resistance . Nature 66, 128–130 (1902). https://doi.org/10.1038/066128a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/066128a0