 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
 | William Edward Ayrton - Electricity - 1897 - 680 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 morcury of a constant cross-sectional area of one square millimetre, and of a length of 100 -3 centimetres,... | |
 | Physical therapy - 1897 - 238 pages
...current of one ampere. Ohm. The unit of resistance. Which is represented by the resistance offered to an electric current by a column of mercury, at the temperature of melting ice, 14.4521 grams in mass, of a cross-sectional area, and the length of 106.3 centimeters. Ampere. The... | |
 | John Henderson (A.I.E.E.) - Electric measurements - 1898 - 470 pages
...The ohm, which has the value 109 in terms of the centimetre and the second of time, is represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current...column of mercury at the temperature of melting ice, 14-45 21 grammes in mass, of a constant cross-sectional area, and of a length of 106-3 centimetres."... | |
 | Edwin James Houston - Electric engineering - 1898 - 1010 pages
...equal to io'J 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 106.3 centimetres.... | |
 | Eugene Chilton Parham, John Cutler Shedd - Electric machinery - 1898 - 554 pages
...as follows: "The unit of resistance shall be known as the International Ohm, and is represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current...column of mercury, at the temperature of melting ice, 14.4521 grams in mass, of constant cross-section and of a length of 106.3 centimetres." The absolute... | |
 | Silvanus Phillips Thompson - Electric power - 1898 - 664 pages
...of resistance of the Centimetre-Gramme-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 inciting ice H'45'21 grammes in mass, of a constant cross-sectional area and of the length of IOU'3... | |
 | Charles Sheldon Hastings, Frederick Elijah Beach - Physics - 1898 - 788 pages
...ampere. Thus, 1 volt 1 ampere = - — - — • 1 ohm The legal definition of the ohm is as follows: "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 cross-sectional area, and of the... | |
 | William James Herdman, Frank E. Nagler - Electrotherapeutics - 1898 - 262 pages
...Units to distinguish them from definitions previously adopted. The International Ohm is represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current by a column of pure mercury at the temperature of melting ice, 14.4521 grammes in mass, of a constant cross-sectional... | |
 | U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey - Hydrography - 1899 - 202 pages
...resistance of the Centimetre-Gramme-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 14-4521 grammes in mass, of a constant cross-sectional area and of the length of 106-3 centimetres.... | |
 | Clark Caryl Haskins - Electricity - 1899 - 260 pages
...temperature of 15° C. (6) The international ohm is represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying current by a column of mercury at the temperature of melting ice, 14.4521 grammes in mass, of a constant cross section, and 106.3 centimeters in length. (c) The value... | |
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