Re: electrical units

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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