This image is part of the High Voltage Laboratory collection. In 1938, Congress approved funds for the construction of a new high voltage laboratory building on the campus of the National Bureau of Standards. At a cost of $315,000, the new laboratory, with a 2 million-volt generator for high voltage work and a 1,400,000-volt generator for X-ray studies, was completed late in 1940. The collection’s images document the high voltage laboratory building’s interior and apparatus used in measurement experiments.
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Photographs; History; Metrology; High voltages; Laboratories; 1940s
