Everything about Giovanni Giorgi totally explained
Giovanni Giorgi (
27 November 1871 -
19 August 1950) was an
electrical engineer who invented the Giorgi system of measurement, the precursor to the International System (
SI).
Giorgi was born in
Lucca and studied engineering at the Institute of Technology of Rome, and was the director of the Technology Office of Rome between 1906 and 1923. He also taught at the
University of Rome between 1913 and 1939.
Toward the end of the
19th century, after
James Clerk Maxwell's discoveries, it was clear that electric measurements couldn't be explained in terms of the three fundamental units of length, mass and time. Therefore, in
1901, Giorgi proposed to the AEI (Associazione Elettrotecnica Italiana) a new system that had as fundamental units the
metre, the
kilogram, the
second and a fourth unit to be chosen from the units of electrotechnology.
In
1935 this was adopted by the
IEC as the
Giorgi system, also known as MKSΩ, because the fourth fundamental unit was that of
electrical resistance, the
ohm. In
1960, at the 11th
General Conference of Weights and Measures, the
SI (International System) was adopted, which was based on seven fundamental units:
metre,
kilogram,
second,
ampere,
kelvin,
mole and
candela.
Giorgi died in
Castiglioncello,
Livorno at the age of 79.
Further Information
Get more info on 'Giovanni Giorgi'.
|
External Link Exchanges
Do you know how hard it is to get a link from a large encyclopaedia? Well we're different and will prove it. To get a link from us just add the following HTML to your site on a relevant page:
<a href="http://giovanni_giorgi.totallyexplained.com">Giovanni Giorgi Totally Explained</a>
Then simply click through this link from your web page. Our crawlers will verify your link, extract the title of your web page and instantly add a link back to it. If you like you can remove the words Totally Explained and embed the link in article text.
As long as your link remains in place, we'll keep our link to you right here. Please play fair - our crawlers are watching. Your site must be closely related to this one's topic. Any kind of spamming, dubious practises or removing the link will result in your link from us being dropped and, potentially, your whole site being banned. |
