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Harry Diamond Laboratories

Closed research facilities of the United States ArmyHistoric American Engineering Record in MarylandLaboratories in the United StatesNational Institute of Standards and TechnologyScience and technology in Maryland
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The Harry Diamond Laboratories (HDL) was a research facility of the Ordnance Development Division of the National Bureau of Standards and later the US Army, most notable for its work on proximity fuzes in World War II. The organization was founded in 1940, but was not named after its first director Harry Diamond until 1962. HDL was one of seven Army laboratories merged to form the new Army Research Laboratory in 1992.

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