 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...  Nature - Page 120edited by - 1893Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon Crocker - Electric lighting - 1896 - 472 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...column of mercury at the temperature of melting ice fourteen and four thousand five hundred and twenty-one ten-thousandths (14.4521) grams in mass, of... | |
 | George Carey Foster, Edmund Atkinson - Electric power - 1896 - 604 pages
...of the Ohm. [§ 385States In an Order in Council of 1894, the ohm is stated to be " represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current...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."... | |
 | Mathematics - 1905 - 558 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...column of mercury at the temperature of melting ice, 14'4521 grammes in mass, of a constant cross-sectional area, and of a length 106 '3 centims.," is one... | |
 | Alfred Payson Gage - Physics - 1896 - 400 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...column of mercury at the temperature of melting ice, 14.421 grams in mass, of a constant cross-sectional area, and of the length of 106.3 centimeters "... | |
 | Henry James Chaney - Metric system - 1897 - 218 pages
...resistance should be denominated the ohm, and should have the value 1,000,000,000 iu terms of the centimetre and second. 4. That the resistance offered to an unvarying...current by a column of mercury at the temperature of meltiug ice 14-4521 grammes in mass of a constant cross sectional area, and of a length of 106-3 centimetres... | |
 | Thomas O'Conor Sloane - Electric engineering - 1897 - 696 pages
...equal to io9 units of resistance of the CGS system of electro-magnetic units, and is represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current...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 1o6.3 centimeters.... | |
 | Henry Smith Carhart, Horatio Nelson Chute - Physics - 1897 - 410 pages
...Congress of Electricians in Chicago, August 21, 1893, as follows : The international ohm is represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current...column of mercury at the temperature of melting ice, 14.4521 grammes in mass, of a constant cross-sectional area, and of the length 106.3 centimetres. 349.... | |
 | Mathematics - 1914 - 494 pages
...1908. The resolution relating to the international ohm is as follows : — " The international ohm is the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current...column of mercury at the temperature of melting ice, 14'4521 gr. in mass, of a constant cross-sectional area and of a length of 106 '300 cm." Mercury standards... | |
 | John A. Roebling's Sons Company - Electric cables - 1897 - 92 pages
...equal to 109 units of resistance of the CGS system of electro-magnetic units, and is represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current...column of mercury at the temperature of melting ice 14.452 1 grams in mass, of a constant cross-sectional area and of the length of 106.3 centimeters.... | |
 | William Edward Ayrton - Electricity - 1897 - 688 pages
...resistance should be denominated the ohm, and should have the value 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 of a constant cross-sectional area of one square millimetre, and of a length of 106-3 centimetres,... | |
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