Watt's in a name? It never 'hertz' to know the source

Electrical Apparatus | September 1, 2000| | Copyright

VOLT, AMPERE, OHM . . . familiar terms to anyone acquainted with electrical or electronic technology. We deal with many other standard electrical or magnetic units, such as the coulomb, gauss, weber, tesla, hertz, henry, maxwell, farad--some of them less familiar. Where did such designations originate? Who decided they should be used?

In all of these examples, the term comes from the name of an individual involved in the discovery of the principles that govern the behavior of some physical quantity. Had others done the research, or had their names been different, we would be using quite a ...

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