National Bureau of Standards
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Brown, Brian Ivan
label: Collection Creator
content: Kearns, Robert W.
label: Collection Creator
content: Kearns, Timothy
label: Collection Creator
content: Quan, John
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content: Robert W. Kearns Papers
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1967 - 1972
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1406, Series 6
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series documents Kearns's work at the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) from 1971-1976 as a mechanical engineer and principal investigator of skid resistance and measurement of pavements under wet-weather conditions. Kearns implemented a Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) effort to establish a hierarchial program for standardization of the skid resistance measurement of pavements under simulated wet weather conditions. The activity was part of the FHWA skid accident reduction program.  The materials include Kearns's personnel file from the NBS, and two notebooks detailing his work.