From 1830 until 1901, the role of overseeing weights and measures was carried out by the Office of Standard Weights and Measures, which was part of the U. S. Treasury Department.

From 1830 until 1901, the responsibility of overseeing weights and measures was carried out by the Office of Standard Weights and Measures, which was part of the U. S. Treasury Department.

Other watt balance experiments are being undertaken in the US National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST ), the Swiss Federal Office of Metrology ( METAS ) in Berne, the International Bureau of Weights and Measures ( BIPM ) near Paris and Laboratoire national de métrologie et d ’ essais ( LNE ) in Trappes, France.

In 1899 he was asked to head the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey's Office of Weights and Measures, where he developed the plan for the establishment of a bureau of standards.

These were the fundamental standards for customary length and mass measurements in the United States, but the Office of Weights and Measures had other standards for metric measurements.

The U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey Office of Weights and Measures had on hand a number of metric standards, and selected the iron " Committee Meter " and the platinum " Arago Kilogram " to be the national standards for metric measurement ; the standard yard and pound previously mentioned continued to be the standards for customary measurements ( Barbrow & Judson 1976, 10 ).

" For several years before the Mendenhall order was actually issued, the Office of Weights and Measures was " practically forced " to use the metric standards because of their superior stability, and because they were better designed for carrying out precision comparisons.

Mendenhall ordered that the standards used for the most accurate length and mass comparison change from certain yard and pound objects to certain meter and kilogram objects, but did not require anyone outside of the Office of Weights and Measures to change from the customary units to the metric system.

In 1953, he became the director of the optical department of the German Office for Weights and Measures.

In 1953, he became the director of the optical department of the Deutsches Amt für Maß und Gewicht ( DAMG, German Office for Weights and Measures ) in East Berlin, the East German equivalent to the West German Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt ( Federal Physical and Technical Institute ).

In 1869 he joined the Office of Weights and Measures, a part of the Department of the Treasury that later became the National Bureau of Standards.

Local members who refuse to obey the instructions of Conservative Central Office can have their Association suspended ( put on " Special Measures "), as was done to the Slough Association at that election when they refused to deselect their candidate.

In the early 1980s, Sebeok composed a report for the US Office of Nuclear Waste Management titled Communication Measures To Bridge Ten Millennia, discussing solutions to the problem of nuclear semiotics, a system of signs aimed at warning future civilizations from entering geographic areas contaminated by nuclear waste.

Technically, Aiken was a minister without portfolio, as there was no Department of State corresponding to his brief, although there was an Office of the Minister for the Co-ordination of Defensive Measures.

Redford Barracks was built between 1909 and 1915 by the War Office and designed by Harry Bell Measures.

In 1850, Carnegie became a telegraph messenger boy in the Pittsburgh Office of the Ohio Telegraph Company, at $ 2. 50 per week, following the recommendation of his uncle.

In 1981, she became an attorney-adviser to Clarence Thomas who was then the Assistant Secretary of the U. S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights.

As trading became tighter in the petroleum market, and Aston Martin was requiring more time and money, Gauntlett agreed to sell Hays / Pace to the Kuwait Investment Office in September 1983.

While the TV show went into reruns, Mike Judge went on to make movies: he directed such films as Extract, Idiocracy, and Office Space, which found favor with moviegoers and later became cult classics.

The country lobbied aggressively for the establishment of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and became the first nation to recognize the jurisdiction of the Inter-American Human Rights Court, based in San José.

Alston became staff artist at the Office of War Information and Public Relations in 1940, creating drawings of notable African Americans.

It was 15 years before the personal computer became familiar to the general public, and three decades before most people encountered attempts at natural language processing in Internet services like Ask. com or PC help systems such as Microsoft Office Clippy.

The Gestapo became known as Amt IV (" Department or Office IV ") with Heinrich Müller as its chief.

Prior to the implementation of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office Act 1996 enacted by the British Parliament, Hong Kong represented its interests abroad through the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Offices ( HKETOs ) and via a special office in the British Embassies or High Commissions, but the latter has ceased after the sovereignty of Hong Kong was transferred to the PRC and became a special administrative region ( SAR ) of the PRC in 1997.

Up to the time he became Germany's Foreign Minister, Ribbentrop aggressively competed with Neurath's Foreign Office and sought to undercut Neurath at every turn.

FitzRoy's office became the United Kingdom Meteorological Office in 1854, the first national meteorological service in the world.

Princetown is the most deprived ward in Devon, as when the Home Office changed its rules on where prison officers should live, staff moved out of the town and much poor-quality housing became available, which was then offered to the disabled, the unemployed and one parent families.

As a result, many purpose-built post offices became redundant and either fell into disuse or were adaptively reused ; sometimes retaining the title of Post Office prefixed by Old or Former for historical and heritage reasons.

Elizabeth Will, an Army heraldic specialist in the Office of the Quartermaster General, was named to redesign the newly revived medal, which became known as the Purple Heart.

George B. Armstrong, manager of the Chicago Post Office, is generally credited with being the founder of the concept of en route mail sorting aboard trains which became the Railway Mail Service.

The Headquarters Staff, SD, and Race Office became full-time paid employees, as did the leaders of the SS-Gruppen and some of their command staffs.

Reinhard Heydrich is viewed as the mastermind behind the SS security forces and held the title of Chef des Sicherheitspolizei und SD until 27 September 1939 when he became the overall supreme commander of the Reich Main Security Office.

Tyler ended up taking the Oath of Office and became President, setting a precedent that is followed to this day.

Gretzky became known for setting up with the puck behind the net, an area that was nicknamed " Gretzky's Office " because of his great prowess there.

However, records with the United States Patent and Trademark Office show that the rights to the Writers of the Future name were transferred from the L. Ron Hubbard estate (" Family Trust-B ") to the Church of Spiritual Technology in 1989, and under the 1993 IRS closing agreement with the Church of Scientology, the L. Ron Hubbard estate became part of the Church of Spiritual Technology, a " Scientology-related entity ".

Norman Holmes Pearson, who worked for the Office of Strategic Studies in London during World War II, returned to Yale and headed the new American studies program, in which scholarship quickly became an instrument of promoting liberty.

The invention of the first multimeter is attributed to British Post Office engineer, Donald Macadie, who became dissatisfied with having to carry many separate instruments required for the maintenance of the telecommunications circuits.

In 1990, the Orbital Mechanics Department and Astronomical Applications Department were established, and Nautical Almanac Office became a division of the Astronomical Applications Department.

Under George W. Bush, additional units were added, such as the Office of Homeland Security ( 2001 ), which later became a cabinet department, and the Office of Faith-based and Community Initiatives ( 2001 ).

In a December 1992 article for The New Yorker, Seymour Hersh reported that President Richard Nixon and Charles Colson had repeatedly discussed the Capp case in Oval Office recordings that had recently been made available by the National Archives.

Washington, D. C .: Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration: For sale by the Supt.

A large portion of this strategy is the privatization of the National Telecommunications Office ( ONATEL ), with additional focus on a rural telephony promotion project.

Selig oversaw baseball through the 1994 strike, the introduction of the wild card, interleague play, and the merging of the National and American leagues under the Office of the Commissioner.

Whereas in the past, the National and American leagues had separate administrative organizations ( which, for example, allowed for the introduction of different rules such as the designated hitter ), under Selig, Major League Baseball consolidated the administrative functions of both leagues into the Commissioner's Office in 2000.

The official paper copy version is available from the National Technical Information Service and the Government Printing Office.

The official printed version is sold by the Government Printing Office and National Technical Information Service.

Direction des services postaux de l ’ Office National des Postes et de l ' Épargne is responsible for the postal service.

The census is performed by the Philippines ' National Statistics Office ( NSO ).

The census of England & Wales is undertaken for the government by the Office for National Statistics ( ONS ).

On 30 June 1939 legislation ceased the CCC program to be an independent agency, transferred to the Federal Security Agency along with the Social Security Board, National Youth Administration, U. S. Employment Service, the Office of Education and the Works Progress Administration.

During the 1993 policy debate, the National Defense Research Institute prepared a study for the Office of the Secretary of Defense published as Sexual Orientation and U. S. Military Personnel Policy: Options and Assessment.

However, the vast majority of Federal government publications covering these topics are published by the Office of Justice Programs agencies of the United States Department of Justice, and disseminated through the National Criminal Justice Reference Service.

Singer has worked as a consultant for several government agencies, including the House Select Committee on Space, NASA, the Government Accountability Office, the National Science Foundation, the United States Atomic Energy Commission, National Research Council, the Department of Defense Strategic Defense Initiative, Department of Energy Nuclear Waste Panel, and the Department of the Treasury.

Metropolitan Cultural Centre ( old National Post Office Building ).

A senior surgeon in the war, Billings built two of the world's most important libraries, Library of the Surgeon General's Office ( now the National Library of Medicine and the New York Public Library ; he also figured out how to mechanically analyze data by turning it into numbers and punching onto the computer punch card as developed by his student Herman Hollerith.

On 1 January 1912 the National Telephone Company was nationalised and merged into the General Post Office by the Telephone Transfer Act 1911.

** Andrew Johnson, Democrat / National Union, was impeached in 1868 after violating the then-newly created Tenure of Office Act.

Many federal government agencies are open their branch in Kajang including the National Registration Department, Immigration Department and Hulu Langat Education Office.

However, a survey by the UK Office for National Statistics ( ONS ) in 2010 found that 1. 5 % of Britons identified themselves as gay or bisexual, and the ONS suggests that this is in line with other surveys showing the number between 0. 3 % and 3 %.

The result of these discussions was the creation of the Malagasy Office of the Environment and the signing of a National Environmental Action Plan.

Organizations such as the Ocean Prediction Center, Honolulu National Weather Service forecast office, United Kingdom Met Office, and JMA prepare high seas forecasts for the world's oceans.

Other parastatals are the responsibility of the Office of the Presidency, such as the Independent National Electoral Commission, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the Federal Civil Service Commission.

While the Office for National Statistics and others describe the United Kingdom as a " nation state ", others, including a then Prime Minister, describe it as a " multinational state ", and the term Home Nations is used to describe the four national teams that represent the four nations of the United Kingdom ( England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales ).