In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brooke Clarke writes: >I've been reading some of these articles and notice that NBS started >work with Cesium standards around 1948, yet it was the Essen standard at >NPL in the UK that seems to be the important one. I take it that this >means that Essen's standard worked much better, but how was his >different from the NBS standard?
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