Keith Martin

Keith Martin is a librarian at the NIST Research Library. He often comes across interesting stories from NIST’s past while working with NIST scientists on their current projects.

Thu, 10/12/2017 - 12:01
Pirates of the CaribbeanMetric edition
Thu, 10/12/2017 - 12:01
To save his own life, Joseph Dombey had an idea. As two pirate ships surrounded the ship he was on in the Caribbean Sea in 1794, Dombey scrambled below deck, disrobing as he went. He appropriated the outfit of one of the ship’s many Spanish sailors…