A virtual museum of standards and technology.THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY National Institute of Standards and Technology, governmental agency within the U.S. Dept. of Commerce with the mission of "working with industry to develop and apply technology, measurements, and standards" in the national interest. (NIST (National Institute of Standards & Technology, Washington, DC, www.nist.gov) The standards-defining agency of the U.S. government, formerly the National Bureau of Standards. It is one of three agencies that fall under the Technology Administration (www.technology. ) features exhibits in its virtual museum that might be of interest to career and technical education teachers in several different areas. Among the exhibits currently featured at the site are "Standardization of Women's Clothing," "Rapid Reversing Motor" and "The Notched-Disk Memory." One exhibit recounts the AD-X2 battery additive controversy, while another tells the story of the Bat Missile, the first fully automated guided missile guided missile, self-propelled, unmanned space or air vehicle carrying an explosive warhead. Its path can be adjusted during flight, either by automatic self-contained controls or remote human control. used in combat. If optical technology is of interest, visit the scanning tunneling microscope scanning tunneling microscope, device for studying and imaging individual atoms on the surfaces of materials. The instrument was invented in the early 1980s by Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer, who were awarded the 1986 Nobel prize in physics for their work. exhibit. Exhibits about building materials include the line heat source guarded hot plate exhibit about thermal conductivity tests on insulation materials and the NIST stone test wall The NIST stone test wall is an experiment by the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology to determine how different types of construction stone weather. It includes 2352 samples of stone from 47 different states within the US and 16 different countries. exhibit. Constructed to study the performance of stone subjected to weathering, the wall contains more than 2,000 samples of stone. Visit the NIST Virtual Museum at http://museum.nist.gov/exhibits/index.html. |
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