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SIR RICHARD GLAZEBROOK says1: ” It is recognised that in addition to the three accepted units of length, time and mass a fourth unit is required for the specification of electrical quantities”. Recognised by whom? What has happened to the upholders of the old doctrine that these three quantities are possessed of some mystical peculiarity in virtue of which they are necessary and sufficient as fundamental units? Is it abandoned; if so, what do those who held it now believe? Or has a fourth magnitude possessed of this mystical property been found; if so, what is it?
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NATURE, 136, 71; July 13, 1935.
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CAMPBELL, N. Electrical Units and the I.E.C.. Nature 136, 148 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136148a0
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