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National Physical Laboratory

A grand brick building with white columns and arched windows stands under a clear blue sky, featuring the sign "NEN TICET BUESTER LABY."

Britain's national metrology institute, founded in 1900 in the grounds of Bushy House in Teddington. It maintains the country's standards for length, mass, time, temperature, and electrical units, and has historically led research on the limits of measurement — including post-war studies comparing trained human surface inspectors against the first generation of mechanical profilometers.

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