Re: Dead Electrical Guys Re: electrical units

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Original poster: Jim Lux <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net> 

At 06:08 PM 2/4/2004 -0700, you wrote:
>Original poster: BunnyKiller <bunikllr-at-bellsouth-dot-net>
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>Tesla list wrote:
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>>Original poster: dave pierson <davep-at-quik-dot-com>
>>Alessandra Volta, IIR.  Frog lrgs.
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>>Georg Ohm
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>>Andre (?) Ampere.
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>>Quick, name the magnetic Field Unit...
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>ummm  let me guess    hmmm  Gauss???  or is it a Tesla ;) ....
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>Scot D
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>>I am pretty sure the Coulomb was defined ex post facto (last)
>>as 'volt' etc are of 'great antiquity'.
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>>I suspect google search would resolve these  8)>>


I wasn't so much wondering about the names, but how the general magnitude 
of the unit was chosen in the first place.