Re: electrical units

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Original poster: "Jim Mitchell" <electrontube-at-sbcglobal-dot-net> 

What a coincedence, I have the same birthdate as Faraday, hmm maybe this
explains my interest in electronics?

Regards - Jim Mitchell
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 > Original poster: Ed Phillips <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>
 >
 > "
 > Most were named after the discoverer  Ohm was another electrical person.
 >
 > Regards - Jim Mitchell"
 >
 > George Ohm, I believe, a frenchman.  Contemporary of Faraday.  He did
 > experiments which showed, at least for the metals he was working with,
 > the voltage was proportional to the current.  Sometime later (around
 > 1895 +/- units like the ohm, watt, volt, henry, and ampere were named
 > for famous scientists of earlier times.
 >
 > Ed
 >
 >