ABSTRACT
This chapter represents the first Bureau of Standards scientific contribution of Edward B. Rosa, Chief Physicist and first Division Chief of National Bureau of Standards (NBS). Rosa was an outstanding and prolific physicist and writer, having provided the basis for the century-long international pre-eminence of NBS/National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in electrical metrology. He authored or co-authored some 75 NBS papers ranging in topic from fundamental electrical measurements through practical papers on electromagnetic calculations and applied measurement techniques to descriptions of basic work in electrolysis and photometrics. The chapter explores an early commitment to outstanding work in the electrical metrology field by a fledgling organization. The NIST impedance calibration laboratory (ICL) promotes the use of the SI units farad and henry through capacitance and inductance calibrations for customers, both inside and outside NIST.
