Excerpt from The Principles Involved in the Selection and Definition of the Fundamental Electrical Units to Be Proposed for International Adoption In a paper presented to the International Electrical Congress at St. Louis in the writer reviewed the efforts which had previously been made to secure international uniformity of the electrical units, and pointed out their failure as shown by the discrepancies in the laws thus far enacted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.