12D KEPORT— 1894. 



Electrical Congress to be held in August at Chicago, beg to submit 

 herewith a brief report showing the definitive action of said Congress in 

 the matter of defining and naming units of electrical measure. The 

 consideration of this important subject was left to what -was known as 

 the ' Chamber of Delegates ' of the Congress, consisting only of those 

 who had been officially commissioned by their respective Governments to 

 act as members of said Chamber. After conference and correspondence 

 with the leading electricians of Europe, it had been agreed that the 

 maximum number of such delegates to be allowed to one nation should be 

 five, and this number was allotted to the United States, Great Britain, 

 Germany, and France. Other nations were allowed three or two, and in 

 some instances one. 



Delegates present and taking part in the discussions and action of the 

 Chamber were as follows : — 



Representing the United States. 



Professor H. A. Rowland, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. 

 Dr. T. C. Mendenhall, Superintendent of U.S. Coast and Geodetic 

 Survey, and of Standard Weights and Measures, Washington, D.C. 

 Professor H. S. Carhart, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. 

 Professor Elihu Thomson, Lynn, Mass. 

 Dr. E. L. Nichols, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. 



Rejjresenting Great Britain. 



W. H. Preece, F.R.S., Engineer-in-Chief and Electrician, Post Office, 

 England ; President of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, London. 



W. E. Ayrton, City and Guilds of London Central Institution, 

 Exhibition Road, London. 



Professor Silvanus P. Thompson, D.Sc, F.R.S., Principal of the City 

 and Guilds Technical College, Finsbury, London. 



Alex. Siemens, 12 Queen Anne's Gate, Westminster, London, S.W. 



Representing France. 



E. Mascart, Membre de I'lnstitut, 176 Rue de I'Universite, Paris. 



T. VioUe, Professeur au Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers, 89 Boule- 

 vard St. Michel, Paris. 



De la Touanne, Telegraph Engineer of the French Government, 

 13 Rue Soufflot, Paris. 



Edouard Hospitaller, Professeur a I'Ecole de Physique et de Chimie 

 industrielle de la Ville de Paris ; Vice-President de la Societe Internationale 

 des Electriciens, 6 Rue de Clichy, Paris. 



Dr. S. Leduc, 5 Quai Fosse, Nantes. 



Representing Italy. 



Comm. Galileo Ferraris, Professor of Technical Physics and Electro- 

 technics in the R. Museo Industriale, Turin, Via Venti Settembre 46. 



Representing Germany. 



H.E. Hermann von Helmholtz, Prasident der physikalisch-technischen 

 Reichsanstalt, Professor a. d. Universitat, Berlin, Charlottenburg bei 

 Berlin. 



Dr. Emil Budde, Berlin N.W. Klopstockstrasse 53. 



