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THE reissue by the Cambridge University Press of the annual Reports of the Committee on Electrical Standards, with Mr. F. E. Smith as editor, has placed in our hands in a convenient form an extremely interesting chapter of the history of scientific research in this country. The committee was first appointed in 1861, as the outcome of a paper on the subject by the late Sir Charles Bright and Mr. Latimer Clark. At that time no generally recognised system of electrical units existed, and its initial object was to decide on the most convenient unit of resistance and embody it in a material standard. Its first members were Profs. W. Thomson, Williamson, Wheatstone, and Miller, Dr. Mattiessen, and Mr. Jenkin. Seven other members, including Profs. Maxwell, Stewart, and Dr. Joule, were added in 1863, and four others, including Prof. C. Foster and Mr. Hokin, in 1867.
Reports of the Committee on Electrical Standards appointed by the British Association.
Pp. xxiv + 783 + 10 plates. (Cambridge: University Press, 1913.) Price 12s. 6d. net.
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L., C. Reports of the Committee on Electrical Standards appointed by the British Association . Nature 92, 91 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/092091a0
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