 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...  Wire in Electrical Construction - Page 14by John A. Roebling's Sons Company - 1897 - 73 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Townsend Porter - Physiology - 1901 - 340 pages
...the rate of 0.001118 gram per second. The ohm is the resistance offered to an unvarying electrical current by a column of mercury at the temperature of melting ice, 14.4521 grams in mass, of a constant cross-sectional area, and of the length of 106.3 centimetres.... | |
 | Robert Wahl, Max Henius - Brewing - 1902 - 1288 pages
...which is substantially equal to one thousand million units of resistance of the centimeter-gram-sccond system of electro-magnetic units, and is represented...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... | |
 | Silvanus Phillips Thompson - Electricity - 1902 - 650 pages
...measurement, viz. :— 1. The ohm, which has the value 10 " in terms of the centimetre and the second of time, and is represented by the resistance offered to an...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. 2.... | |
 | Sir John Ambrose Fleming - Electric apparatus and appliances - 1902 - 488 pages
...viz. : — 1. The Ohm, which has the value of 10" in terms of the centimetre and the second of time, and is represented by the resistance offered to an...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. \... | |
 | Fernando Sanford - 1902 - 484 pages
...and the units as here defined are known as the International Electrical Units. The International Ohm, represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying...column of mercury at the temperature of melting ice, 14.4521 grams in mass, of a constant sectional area and of a length of 106.3 centimeters. The International... | |
 | Albert Algernon Atkinson - Electricity - 1902 - 340 pages
...of the CGS system of electromagnetic units, and is represented sufficiently well for practical use by the resistance offered to an unvarying electric...column of mercury at the temperature of melting ice, 14.4521 grams in mass, of a constant cross sectional area, and of the length 106.3 centimeters. For... | |
 | Science - 1902 - 750 pages
...FIG. 6 as adopted by the International Congress of Electricians, held at Chicago, August 21, 1893, is represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current by a column of mercury at a temperature of melting ice, 14.4521 grams in mass, of a constant crosssectional area, and of the... | |
 | Alfred Payson Gage - Physics - 1902 - 394 pages
...barrier are called insulators. The unit of resistance is called the ohm. The international ohm is " the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current by a column of mercury ELECTRICAL POWER, ETC. 291 at the temperature of melting ice, 14.421 g. in mass, of a constant cross-sectional... | |
 | John Shiress Will - Electric engineering - 1903 - 570 pages
...measurement, viz. : — 1. The Ohm, which has the value 10" in terms of the centimetre and the second of time and is represented by the resistance offered to an...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. 2.... | |
 | Frederick Hutton Getman - Chemistry, Physical and theoretical - 1904 - 288 pages
...are hereby, recommended to formally adopt as legal units of electrical measure the following: "1. AH a unit of resistance, the international ohm, which...column of mercury at the temperature of melting ice, 14.4521 grams in mass, of a constant cross-sectional area and of the length of 106.3 centimetres. "2.... | |
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