American tentative standard for engineering abbreviations adopted

BRINGING to a close a preliminary period of several years of effort, the sectional committee on scientific and engineering symbols and abbreviations of the American Standards Association recently made a final report to that Association embracing an American Tentative Standard specifying and governing the use of abbreviations for scientific and engineering terms. This tentative standard is strictly an editorial specification listing more than 200 abbreviations considered as acceptable for use in the preparation of technical manuscripts, and setting forth 8 practical rules governing the use of such abbreviations in text matter. In this initial list of abbreviations the committee has included only the terms in most common use.