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IN recent years, at Birkbeck College, attention has been given to various methods of measuring electrical resistance absolutely. On the eve of war, this series of researches has been brought to a conclusion by the development of a method in which the potential difference across a resistor is balanced by the average E.M.F.of a commutating generator. Although Rosa1, so far back as 1909, suggested such a method and proposed a form of apparatus, difficulties were encountered and no experimental data derived from any form of this method have been published. The method is attractive in requiring only the measurement of a frequency and a maximum mutual inductance.
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Rosa, Bull. Bur. Standards, 5, 499, (1909). Cf. “Dictionary of Applied Physicsâ, vol. 2, p. 226.
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NETTLETON, H. Absolute Measurement of Electrical Resistance. Nature 144, 782–783 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144782b0
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