Bushy House, home of the National Physical Laboratory (noisemaker)
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Teddington - National Physical Laboratory
1900 - Queen Victoria gives permission for the newly founded National Physical Laboratory to move into Bushy House and its grounds
1907 - The National Physical Laboratory begins an ongoing and still continuing task, testing for accuracy the meters of taxi cabs
1911 - The first ship tank, 150 metres long, is opened at the National Physical Laboratory for marine testing
1942 - Early tests of the Dambusters' bouncing bomb are carried out at the National Physical Laboratory's ship tank
1955 - The first accurate caesium clock is developed at the National Physical Laboratory
2004 - The National Physical Laboratory develops a new system of measuring time by bombarding a single strontium atom, frozen to -273C, with tiny packages of light
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