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Brochures and journals on the history of the PTR/PTB

For over 125 years, the PTR and PTB have been at the center of measuring in Germany. If you would like to have a brief or a longer insight into our past with its many high points, then please take a look at our publications on PTR/PTB's history. You can order many of them free of charge or download them directly as pdf files. 

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    PTR and PTB: History of an Institution

    You can order this PTB Info Sheet free of charge from our Press and Information Office (address: see right) or download it as pdf file.

    PTR/PTB: 125 Years of Metrological Research

    PTR/PTB: 125 Years of Metrological Research

    Special edition of PTB-Mitteilungen 2.2012, 68 pages. You can order it free of charge from the Press and Information Office (address: see right) or download it directly as pdf file.

    Metrology Throughout the Ages

    Metrology Throughout the Ages

    Special edition of PTB-Mitteilungen 3.2012, 95 pages. You can download it here as pdf file.

    Die Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt in Thüringen (in German only)

    Die Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt in Thüringen (in German only)

    Special edition of PTB-Mitteilungen 1.2013, 120 pages, You can order it free of charge from the Press and Information Office (address: see right) or download it directly as pdf file.

    50 Jahre Zeitaussendung mit DCF77 (in German only)

    50 Jahre Zeitaussendung mit DCF77

    Special edition of PTB-Mitteilungen 3.2009, 47 pages.

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