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Guide to Instrumentation Literature Instrumentation Literature United States Department of Commerce National Bureau of Standards Miscellaneous Publication 271 THE NATIONAL BUREAU OF STANDARDS The National Bureau of Standards is a principal focal point in the Federal Government for assuring maximum application of the physical and engineering sciences to the advancement of technology in industry and commerce. Its responsibilities include development and maintenance of the national stand- ards of measurement, and the provisions of means for making measurements consistent with those standards; determination of physical constants and properties of materials; development of methods for testing materials, mechanisms, and structures, and making such tests as may be necessary, particu- larly for government agencies; cooperation in the establishment of standard practices for incorpora- tion in codes and specifications; advisory service to government agencies on scientific and technical problems; invention and development of devices to serve special needs of the Government; assistance to industry, business, and consumers in the development and acceptance of commercial standards and simplified trade practice recommendations; administration of programs in cooperation with United States business groups and standards organizations for the development of international standards of practice; and maintenance of a clearinghouse for the collection and dissemination of scientific, tech- nical, and engineering information. The scope of the Bureau's activities is suggested in the following listing of its four Institutes and their organizational units. Institute for Basic Standards. Applied Mathematics. Electricity. Metrology. Mechanics. Heat. Atomic Physics. Physical Chemistry. Laboratory Astrophysics.* Radiation Physics. Radio Standards Laboratory:* Radio Standards Physics; Radio Standards Engineering. Office of Standard Reference Data. Institute for Materials Research. Analytical Chemistry. Polymers. Metallurgy. Inorganic Mate- rials. Reactor Radiations. Cryogenics.* Materials Evaluation Laboratory. Office of Standard Refer- ence Materials. Institute for Applied Technology. Building Research. Information Technology. Performance Test Development. Electronic Instrumentation. Textile and Apparel Technology Center. Technical Analysis. Office of Weights and Measures. Office of Engineering Standards. Office of Invention and Innovation. Office of Technical Resources. Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information.** Central Radio Propagation Laboratory.* Ionospheric Telecommunications. Tropospheric Tele- communications. Space Environment Forecasting. Aeronomy. * Located at Boulder, Colorado 80301. ** Located at 5285 Port Royal Road, Springfield, Virginia 22171. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE • John T. Connor, Secretary NATIONAL BUREAU OF STANDARDS • A. V. Astin, Director Guide To Instrumentation Literature Julian F. Smith and W. G. Brombacher National Bureau of Standards Miscellaneous Publication 271 (Supersedes Circular 567) Issued July 7, 1965 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. , 20402 Price 31.25 ' FOREWORD In 19U5 the Instruments and Regulations Division, American Society of Mech- anical Engineers (A5ME), issued a pamphlet, Sources of Information on Instru- ments . In 195>2 Julian F. Smith of the Library of Congress prepared a guide and source list, Instrumentation Literature and its Use , for the Office of Basic Instrumentation, National Bureau of Standards. Revision of the two publications was undertaken jointly by AS ME and NBS, and the result was issued in 1955 as NBS Circular 567, Guide to Instrumentation Literature . Lyman Van der Pyl, for the Bibliography Committee of the Instru- ments and Regulators Division, ASME, participated in the revision. The Smith report was thoroughly revised, enlarged, and updated, but its list of instru- ment manufacturers (readily available elsewhere) was dropped. The present Monograph is a revision of Circular 567. The announced ob- jective of Circular 567 was to assist all persons "interested in utilizing the extensive and scattered literature of instrumentation." With the same objec- tive, this revision has brought its literature coverage into 196)4, while drop- ping older references now aging into obsolescence. The revision is part of a program of instrumentation research and development in the Basic Instrumenta- tion Section under Joshua Stern, chief of the section. A. V. Astin, Director. Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 65-60096 - ii - CONTENTS Page Foreword , ii 1. Introduction 1 1.1 Objective 1 1.2 Scope 2 1.3 Kinds of Literature 2 l.h Time Coverage 3 1.5 Sources Consulted 3 1.6 Instrumentation in the Literature U 1.61 Abstract Journals k 1.62 Periodicals 1+ 1.63 Technical Reports ..... U 1.6U Separates I4. 1.65 Patents 5 1.66 Dissertations 7 1.67 Buyers' Guides 7 1.68 Literature Guides 7 1.7 Arrangement of Entries 7 1.8 Abbreviations 8 2. Classified Entries 21 2.1 Abstracting and Indexing Journals and Services 21 A100 General Science; Life Sciences 21 A200 Instrumentation 22 A300 Electricity and Electronics 23 AUOO Physics 2h A^OO Chemistry 2h A600 Engineering 25 A700 Process Industries 26 2.2 Bibliographies 28 B100 Instrumentation 28 B200 Automation and Control 29 B300 Telecommunications 30 BUOO General or Not Otherwise Classified (A,B,C,D) 31 2.3 Books, Monographs, Reference Works 33 1000 Reference Books, Handbooks, Data Compilations (A,B,C) . 33 1100 Design of Experiments; Technique 37 1200 Instrumentation: General (A,B,C) 38 1230 Instrumentation: Devices (A,B,C,D) U0 1270 Instrumentation: Functions and Effects U3 1300 Automation and Control: General (A,B,C,D) UU 1330 Automation and Control: Devices (A,B,C,D) U7 1370 "Process Control (A,B,C,D) k9 lUOO Computers: General (A,B,C,D) 50 1U30 Computers: Analog and Digital (A,B,C,D) 52 1500 Electronics: General 55 1530 Electronics: Instrumental (A,B,C,D) 57 - iii - ) Contents (Cont.) Page 2.3 Books, Monographs, Reference Works (Cont. 15>5>0 Electronics: Semiconductors (A,B,C,D) 60 1560 Electronics: Transistors (A,B,C,D) 62 1570 Electronics: Functions and Effects 61± 1600 Electricity and Magnetism: General (A,B,C,D) 6£ 1630 Electricity and Magnetism: Devices (A,B,C,D) 67 1670 Electricity and Magnetism: Functions and Effects 68 1700 Telecommunications: General (A,B,C,D) 70 1730 Telecommunications: Devices (A,B,C,D) 73 1770 Telecommunications: Frequencies; Effects (A,B,C,D) 7£ 1800 Aeronautics; aviation 77 1830 Space; Rockets; Missiles (A,B,C,D) 79 1900 Physics; Geophysics 81 2000 Meteorology and Seismology 82 2100 Optics: General (A,B,C,D) 83 2130 Optics: Spectroscopy 8£ 2170 Optics: Microscopy and Electron Microscopy 87 2200 Photography; Photogrammetry 88 2300 Radiation; Radioactivity; Dosimetry 89 2i|00 Atomic and Nuclear Energy (A,B,C,D) 92 2^00 Pressure and Vacuum (A,B,C) 9h 26OO Acoustics and Ultrasonics 96 2700 Chronometry; Horology 97 2800 Heat; Temperature; Cryoscopy (A,B,C,D) 98 2900 Mechanics (A,B,C,D) 100 3000 Fluid Flow (A,B,G,D) 103 3100 Vibration and Shock 106 3200 Chemistry; Analysis; Processes (A,B,C) 106 3300 Metals; Metallography 110 3U00 Medical Instrumentation; Biophysics (A,B,C,D) Ill 3^00 Metrology and Calibration 113 36OO Testing Materials llU 3700 Standards; Specifications 116 2.U Dissertation Guides 116 2.5 Directories, Buyers' Guides, Exhibit Guides (A,B,C) 117 2.6 Guides to Technical Literature and Information Services 119 G100 General 119 G200 Defined Subject Areas 120 G300 Defined Sources 121 2.7 Indexes of Technical Literature 121 1100 General 121 1200 Defined Subject Areas 122 1300 Defined Sources 123 - iv - Contents (Cont.) Page 2.8 Patents 123 PalOO Official Gazettes and Abridgments 12h Pa200 Official Searching Aids 12J? Pa300 Unofficial Searching Aids 126 PaliOO Translations 127 2.9 Periodicals and Serials 128 P100 Instrumentation: General (A,B,C,D) 128 PI 30 Instrumentation: Special Topics 130 P170 Instrumentation: Company Journals 130 P200 Computers 131 P2£0 Automation and Process Control (A,B,C,D) 132 P300 Aerospace Sciences (A,B,C,D) 13U Pl;00 Mathematics and its Applications 136 PU£0 Mechanics (A,B,C,D) 136 P^OO Electricity: General 138 P^30 Electricity: Society Journals 139 P570 Electricity: Company Journals lUl P600 Electronics: General (A,B,C,D) lUl P700 Telecommunications: General lU3 P730 Telecommunications: Radio 1U5 P7^0 Telecommunications: Electronic Aspects lh6 P770 Telecommunications: Devices; Frequencies 1U6 P800 Heat; Temperature; Cryoscopy lU7 P83O Light; Optics; Photography (A,B,C,D) 1U8 P870 Acoustics; Ultrasonics l£0 P900 Atomic and Nuclear Energy (A,B,C,D) l£L P1000 Geophysics: General (A,B,C,D) 1J>3 P105>0 Geophysics: Special Topics 1$5 P1100 Physics: General (A,3,C,D) 1$6 P11!?0 Physics: Applied (A,B,C,D) 1!>8 P1200 Engineering (A,B,C,D) 159 P1300 Chemistry: Analysis (General) 162 P1330 Chemistry: Analysis (Special Methods) 162 P1370 Chemistry: Industrial 163 PlUOO Testing Materials 16U P1500 Metrology and Calibration 165 P1600 General Science 167 2.10 Supplement (late entries) 168 - v - GUIDE TO INSTRUMENTATION LITERATURE Julian F. Smith and W. G. Brombacher Der Theoretiker alles weiss und nights kann. Der Praktiker nichts weiss und alles kann. German engineers' proverb. Practice is blind without theory. Theory is lame without practice. Instrumentation version. 1. INTRODUCTION NOTE : Abbreviations, chiefly for names of sponsoring or issuing organizations^ are interpreted in 1.8. This compilation is a source list of instrumentation literature, with
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