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National Physical Laboratory


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0117 MS 538

Held at: Royal Society

Title: National Physical Laboratory

Date(s): nd

Level of description: sub-fonds

Extent: Unknown

Name of creator(s): National Physical Laboratory

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is the UK's National Measurement Institute. The Royal Society appointed the first Director of the NPL, Richard Tetley Grazebrook, on 1 Jan 1900; the NPL was opened in Mar 1902.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Letters and papers about the early years of the National Physical Laboratory.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

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Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Copied from the Royal Society catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 2009.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Measurement | Scientific methods

Personal names

Corporate names
National Physical Laboratory

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