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Gordon Ball Wilkes works at a long counter in the Heat Measurements Laboratory.

Original caption: "Standardization: calibration of thermocouples and thermometers, both as part of a research program and as service to other research agencies of the Institute carried on in Technology's new heat measurements laboratory under particularly good conditions. Here Professor Gordon B. Wilkes, 1911, director of the laboratory, is shown at a bench in the new quarters in the Rogers Building", "JUL 1939", Used in: Technology Review, July 1939 p.412