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BULLETIN No. 93 of the National Research Council, Washington, reproduces the papers on units presented before the American Section of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics at Chicago in June last. After discussion it was recommended:-that in view of the long use of the classical centimetre-gram-second units, no change should be made at present, but that the Gaussian system should be considered in future; that the practical units-ohm, volt, ampere, coulomb, farad, henry, joule and watt-might be extended into a complete absolute system either through the metre-kilogram-second or the centimetre-107 gm.-second, the former by preference. These proposals will in due course be considered by the Committee on Symbols, Units and Nomenclature established by the International Union.
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Electrical and Magnetic Units. Nature 133, 682 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133682b0
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