A partir de 1917, e oficialmente a partir de 1920, trabalhou no National Bureau of Standards (NBS). Foi em 1926 diretor assistente do NBS e em 1932 diretor.
Summary of the results of the stratosphere flight of the Explorer II. Natl. Geogr. Soc. Technol. Pap. Stratosphere Series. 2:5-12. (1936)
NBS War Research: The National Bureau of Standards in World War II. NIST archives (1949)
Methods for measuring the coefficient of restitution and the spin of a ball. J. Res. Natl. Bur. Stand. 34:1-23. (1945)
Lyman J. Briggs, Effect of spin and speed on the lateral deflection (curve) of a baseball and the Magnus effect for smooth spheres. Am. J. Phys. 27:589-96. (1959)
Lyman J. Briggs, Limiting negative pressure of water, J. Appl. Phys. 21:721-22. (1950)
The limiting negative pressure of mercury in Pyrex glass. J. Appl. Phys. 24:488-90. (1953)