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178 to show that altho' [[red underline]] Redfield [[/red underline]] is no greater admirer of the excellent work of Bureau of Standards ^[[than I]] I feel that the contemplated work is far removed from that of [[red underline]] Bureau of Standards [[/red underline]] altho' we shall need much the help and [[red underline]] cooperation of Bureau [[/red underline]] of Standards as far as work of standardization or measuring and testing is concerned Then we all drove in autos to [[red underline]] Brooklyn Navy Yard [[/red underline]] to assist in ceremony of laying keel of the [[red underline]] Battleship California,ͯ the first to be propelled electrically. [[/red underline]] [[symbol "ͯ" refers to vertical annotation in left margin]] Later renamed = New Mexico [[/annotation]] Then found [[red underline]] Emmett, [[/red underline]] a member of our board who designed [[red underline]] the propelling system [[/red underline]] The enormous half finished steel plate hull about 90 feet beam and probably [[end page]] [[start page]] 179 700 foot length was like an immense cradle.- rather hot in the warm sun - sides lined with throngs of workmen in overalls and working clothes. Marine band on a scaffold improvised near crane. Am impressed with fact of extreme thinness of [[strikethrough]] pl [[/strikethrough]] steel plate scarcely one inch thick, apparently less and all the bored holes and rivets. [[red underline]] Why not electrical welding. [[/red underline]] So-called [[red underline]] keel consists of some [[/red underline]] center plates of steel, scarcely thicker than others, and placing of ten metal plated bolts. [[red underline]] Speech by Daniels, [[/red underline]] preceded by prayer of chaplain. then band playing national anthem etc. Then standing lunch at house of commandant, followed by visit [[red underline]] to Navy Yard. [[/red underline]] Huge machine plant-