 | Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.) - Electronic journals - 1915 - 974 pages
...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 of a length of 106.300 centimetres. Owing to... | |
 | Science - 1895 - 1104 pages
...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 grams in mass, of a constant... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - Science - 1895 - 758 pages
...centimetre-gramme-second system of electro-magnetic units, and represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current by a column of mercury at the temperature of melting ice fourteen and fonr thousand five hundred and twenty-one ten thousandths grammes in mass, of a constant... | |
 | National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) - Science - 1888 - 840 pages
...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 grains in mass, of a constant... | |
 | Great Britain - Law - 1894 - 610 pages
...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 of a length of 106 • 3 centimetres.... | |
 | Electric engineering - 1893
...the cos 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, 14.4521 grammes in mass, of a constant cross-sectional area and of the length of 106.3 centimetres. As a Unit... | |
 | American Institute of Electrical Engineers - Electric engineering - 1893 - 780 pages
...the cos 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, 14.4521 grammes in mass, of a constant cross-sectional area and of the length of 106.3 centimetres. As a Unit... | |
 | Electrical engineering - 1893 - 630 pages
...1,000,000,000 in terms of the centimetre and second. 4. That 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 of a length of 106'3 centimetres, may... | |
 | Andrew Gray - Electric measurements - 1893 - 550 pages
...1,000,000,000 in terms of the centimetre and second. (4) " That 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 of a length of 106'3 centimetres,... | |
 | Edward Leamington Nichols - Electric power - 1894 - 332 pages
...electromagnetic units, and is represented sufficiently well by the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current by a column of mercury at the temperature...a constant crosssectional area, and of a length of 106.3 centimeters." In current electricity it is necessary to have variable resistances, such that... | |
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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... 
