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THE British Association has done a great service to the electrical industry by fostering the study of electrical standards and it was with considerable interest that Section A listened to two papers given by Sir Richard Glazebrook at the recent York meeting. Sir Richard has been an active member of the British Association committee on electrical standards which has laboured for a period of fifty years. In 1913 a single volume edited by Sir Frank Smith was published, giving the complete series of thirty-nine reports. Sir Richard was present at the York meeting in 1881 when Section A met at the same centre—St. Peter's School—and received the eighth interim report of the committee for constructing and issuing practical standards for use in electrical measurements. One of the papers* presented by him at the recent meeting showed the changes which have taken place in the British Association wire resistance coils over the period of half a century. The conclusion reached is that platinum is the most stable material to use for the construction of standard coils. This paper has already been referred to in NATURE (Oct. 22, 1932) and will be published in full in the Report of the British Association for 1932. The other paper† dealt with a topic which is still under discussion, namely, the definition of electric and magnetic units.
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GRIFFITHS, E. Electrical and Magnetic Units. Nature 130, 987–989 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130987a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/130987a0