Units and standards for the electrical century
Britain had not been represented at the Paris International Electrical Conference whose decision of May 1884 had ruled that the legal ohm was to be a column of mercury of length 106 cm and section 1 mm2 at a temperature of melting ice. This recommendation had, however, been communicated to the relevant governments in order to obtain international recognition of this unit.
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