Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The So-Called International Electrical Units
The Congress also recommended the employment of the carcel as the standard for photometric comparisons.
The international commission, appointed in accordance with para graph 4 Of the resolutions of the Paris Congress of 1881, met at Paris in 1882, but definite action was deferred until two years later, when the following definitions Were unanimously recommended: The legal ohm is the resistance of a column of mercury 1 square millimeter in cross section and 106 centimeters in length, at the temperature of melting ice.
The ampere is equal to one-tenth of a c. G. 8. Unit of the electro-magnetic system.
The volt is the electro-motive force which will maintain a current of 1 ampere In a conductor of which the resistance is a legal Ohm.
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