Highlights of the NIST Museum
Located on NIST Campus in Gaithersburg, MD
Since 1901, NIST has maintained increasingly more precise measures for the United States.
The NIST museum showcases many of NIST's historic achievements, information about some of NIST's notable scientists, and objects of importance to the history of metrology.
The Hall of Standards, pictured at right, leads from the reception area at the front of NIST's Administration Building to NIST's Museum and Research Library.
The Hall contains exhibits on the International System of Units, Beautiful Measures, and selected Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler correspondence.
This NIST Museum brochure
highlights NIST exhibits and illustrates the physical layout of the museum.
The Bat Missile Exhibit
The exhibit displays the first fully automated guided missile employed in combat. NIST developed
the radar guidance system for this World War II era weapon, on display in the Museum Lobby.
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