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WITH the help of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, a plan for a Standards Laboratory in Australia was drawn up in 1927, to be controlled by the recently created Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. Unfortunately, the need for it was not fully realized in political circles until, after ten years or more, the growth of secondary industries and an impending acceleration due to war activity, made further postponement obviously dangerous.
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RIVETT, D. The Australian National Standards Laboratory. Nature 147, 302 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147302a0
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