COULOMB

the practical unit of electrical charge or quantity of electricity is called & coulomb, so named in honor of August in de Coulomb, the noted French éngineer and physicist of the 18th century. The Chicago International Electrical Congre of 1893 formulated the following definition which was accepted and adopted by the National Academy of Sciences on Feb. 9, 1893. Pa age by the U. S. Congre on July 12, 1894, made this definition legal in the U. S. ‘The unit of quantity (of electricity) shall be what is known as the international coulomb, which is the quantity transferred by a current of one international ampere in one second.’ E.), town, Seine-et-Marne, France; chief industry, printing; large trade in