 | Electrical engineering - 1891 - 860 pages
...Standard of Electrical Resistance should I« denominated the ohm, and should have the value, 1000,000,000 in terms of the centimetre and second. 4. That the...unvarying electric current by a column of mercury of a constant cross-sectional area of one square millimetre, and of a length of 10(>'3 centimetres... | |
 | Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.) - Electronic journals - 1915 - 974 pages
...Electrical Units and Standards (London, 1908). The London Conference defined the international ohm as the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current by a column of mercury at the temperature of melting ice, 14.4521 grammes in mass, of a constant cross-sectional area and... | |
 | Science - 1895 - 1104 pages
...of resistance of the oentimeter-gram-secoud system of electro-magnetic units, and is represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current by a column of mercury at the temperature of melting ice fourteen and four thousand five hundred and twenty-one ten-thousandths... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - Science - 1895 - 758 pages
...which has the value of 109 in terms of the centimetre and the second of time and is represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current by a column of mercury at the temperature of melting ice 14.4521 grammes in a mass of a constant cross sectional area and... | |
 | National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) - Science - 1888 - 840 pages
...of resistance of the centimeter-gram-second system of electromagnetic units, and is represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current by a column of mercury at the temperature of melting ice fourteen and four thousand five hundred and twentyone ten-thousandths... | |
 | National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) - Science - 1890 - 682 pages
...of resistance of the centimeter-gram-second system of electro-magnetic units, and is represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current by a column of merenry at the temperature of melting ice fourteen and four thousand live hundred and twenty-one ten-thousandths... | |
 | Electrical engineering - 1891 - 680 pages
...length, the gramme as unit of mass, and the second as unit of time, and that by the terms centimetre uo gramme are meant the standards of those denominations...unvarying electric current by a column of mercury of a constant cross-sectional area of one square millimetre, and of a length of 106-3 centimetres at... | |
 | Great Britain - Law - 1894 - 610 pages
...ohm, which has the value 109 in terms of the centimetre and the second of time and is represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current by a column of mercury at the temperature of melting ice 14 • 4521 grammes in mass of a constant cross sectional area and... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1892 - 1258 pages
...us, and the evidence given by the various witnesses, we have agreed to the following resolutions : Resolutions. 1. That it is desirable that new denominations...unvarying electric current by a column of mercury of a constant cross sectional area of one square millimetre, and of a length of 106'3 centimetres at... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1892 - 1146 pages
...Board of Trade. 3. That the standard of electrical resistance should be denominated the ohm, and shonld have the value 1,000,000,000 in terms of the centimetre...unvarying electric current by a column of mercury of a constant cross sectional area of one square millimetre, and of a length of 106'3 centimetres at... | |
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As a unit of resistance, the international ohm, which is based upon the ohm equal to 10" units of resistance of the CGS system of electromagnetic units, and is represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current by a column of mercury... 
