What time is it Boulder? NIST and the Atomic Clock
What is NIST, and why do they get such prime real estate on the west side of Broadway? Believe it or not, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, a branch of the US Department of Commerce, has been a contributing factor to the growth and importance of Boulder as a high tech community since 1952.
In 1949, the Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer announced the selection of Boulder as the site for the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) and Central Radio Propagation Laboratory (CRPL). This was right after the second world war and right before Korea. Military technology was pushing the industrial technology (and still is), and in 1959, after a two-month campaign, the citizens of Boulder raised enough money to purchase the 325 Broadway site, and the Boulder Chamber of Commerce deeded the land to the Federal government to build the Boulder NBS (now NIST) laboratories. This was before Boulder was cool, and real estate was very inexpensive compared to other times in Boulder history. Initially settling into the Armory in North Boulder, the first building went up in 1952 and was dedicated by President Eisenhower.
In 1988, The name of the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) changed …read more
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