Colors of Signal Lights: Their Selection, Definition, Measurement, Production, and Use (open access)

Colors of Signal Lights: Their Selection, Definition, Measurement, Production, and Use

Report discussing the selection, specifications, and use of signal-light colors. It discusses the nature of the problem, and the mathematical representation, recognition, production, control, and use of such colors. The characteristics of different types of chromaticity boundaries and the purpose and effect of the requirement for similarity of chromaticity characteristics are given special consideration. The treatment is varied according to the intended use. The discussion of the control of colors and the section on the use of colors are nontechnical, whereas the section on the production of signal colors is designed for the colorimetrist who is faced with the problem of selecting limit filters or drafting a specification.
Date: April 3, 1967
Creator: Breckenridge, F. C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Microwave Attenuation Standards and Measurements (open access)

Microwave Attenuation Standards and Measurements

Report discussing microwave attenuation measurement methods and standards. In addition, a relatively new and more precise way of representing and analyzing an attenuation measurement is presented. This in turn permits more rigorous definitions and error analyses than were previously possible. The referral of microwave attenuation measurements to standards operating at lower frequencies is discussed with particular attention to the errors in the referral processes as well as the errors in the standards themselves. Desirable characteristics are listed for attenuators which are suitable for calibration. Measurement methods are classified and described. Comments are made on the accuracy and convenience of various methods, and references are given which cover most of the basic and important research in this field. Key words: Microwave, attenuation, measurements, standards, tutorial.
Date: April 3, 1967
Creator: Beatty, Robert W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Line Parameters and Computed Spectra for Water Vapor Bands at 2.7 mu (open access)

Line Parameters and Computed Spectra for Water Vapor Bands at 2.7 mu

From Foreword: "This Monograph is one of a series intended to provide fundamental information required for the estimation and interpretation of atmospheric transmittance at infrared frequencies. Part I of this Monograph presents the fundamental properties of the 2.7m water vapor band in terms of line absorptions and the integrated transmittance at any frequency for infinite resolution. Part II presents examples of the "degraded" transmittance for finite resolution, as a function of the spectral slit width, concentration, and pressure with which direct observations may be compared."
Date: August 3, 1964
Creator: Gates, David M.; Calfee, Robert F.; Hansen, David W. & Benedict, W. S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Standard X-ray Diffraction Powder Patterns: Section 2. Data for 37 Substances (open access)

Standard X-ray Diffraction Powder Patterns: Section 2. Data for 37 Substances

Report documenting standard x-ray diffraction powder patterns for various compounds, intended to replace previous data or provide information for new substances. It describes the methods and, for each substance, outlines any previous data as well as information about the sample used and structural data, with a table of diffraction patterns.
Date: May 3, 1963
Creator: Swanson, Howard E.; Morris, M. C.; Stinchfield, Roger P. & Evans, Eloise H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Capacities of Stacks in Sanitary Drainage Systems for Buildings (open access)

Capacities of Stacks in Sanitary Drainage Systems for Buildings

"Some of the important results obtained in investigations of capacities of plumbing stacks in test systems at the National Bureau of Standards and elsewhere are discussed. Data are shown from experiments on the flow of water and air in such systems, and analyses of certain flow phenomena are given. Methods are shown for applying the results of research in hydraulics and pneumatics to the preparation of loading tables (for drainage and vent stacks) suitable for use in plumbing codes" (p. 1).
Date: July 3, 1961
Creator: Wyly, Robert S. & Eaton, Herbert N.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Heat Treatment and Properties of Iron and Steel (open access)

Heat Treatment and Properties of Iron and Steel

From Abstract: "This Monograph has been prepared to give an understanding of heat treatment principally to those unacquainted with this subject. This Monograph has been prepared to answer such inquiries and to give in simplified form a working knowledge of the basic theoretical and practical principles involved in the heat treatment of iron and steel."
Date: October 3, 1960
Creator: Digges, Thomas G. & Rosenberg, Samuel J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Specific Heats and Enthalpies of Technical Solids at Low Temperatures: A Compilation from the Literature (open access)

Specific Heats and Enthalpies of Technical Solids at Low Temperatures: A Compilation from the Literature

Report giving tables of the specific heat, cp, and the enthalpy of 28 metals, 3 alloys, 8 other inorganic substances, and 8 organic substances in the temperature range, 1º to 300º K.
Date: October 3, 1960
Creator: Corruccini, Robert J. & Gniewek, John J.
System: The UNT Digital Library