Excerpt from Research on High Temperature Materials at the National Bureau of Standards The National Bureau of Standards, with support from the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the Department of Defense, has begun a program on High Temperature Materials. This program includes projects on properties of high temperature materials, projects on their prepara tion, and others designed to explain basic phenomena limiting the use of materials at high temperatures. A summary of the progress in this pro gram is given here. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.