Historical Timeline of Computable Knowledge: 1900-1959. 1900: National Physical Laboratory; National Bureau of Standards Using physics to create standards NPL in the UK and NBS in the US are founded to make measurements and standards using methods from physics. 1907: Chemical Abstracts Volunteers contribute abstracts to the first issue of Chemical Abstracts published in the US; this system is in place through the 1960s. Controlling foods & drugs The Pure Food and Drug Act effectively founds the US Food & Drug Administration. 1910: Principia Mathematica Whitehead and Russell attempt to present mathematics formalized in terms of logic. 1913: Al Elias Bringing statistics to sports The Al Munro Elias Bureau starts producing scorecards and statistics on baseball. 1910: Mundaneum Collecting the world's knowledge on index cards Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine collected twelve million index cards of information, planning to create a world center for answering factual questions. 1913: Chemical Rubber Company 1921: Frank and Lillian Gilbreth 1926: US Code H.G.
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