Editing Farad (section)

==History==
The term "farad" was originally coined by [[Latimer Clark]] and [[Charles Tilston Bright|Charles Bright]] in 1861,<ref>
As names for units of various electrical quantities, Bright and Clark suggested "ohma" for voltage, "farad" for charge, "galvat" for current, and "volt" for resistance. See:
* Latimer Clark and Sir Charles Bright (1861) [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/93052#page/483/mode/1up "On the formation of standards of electrical quantity and resistance,"] ''Report of the Thirty-first Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science'' (Manchester, England: September 1861), section: Mathematics and Physics, pp. 37-38.
* Latimer Clark and Sir Charles Bright (November 9, 1861) [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433090837166;view=1up;seq=15 "Measurement of electrical quantities and resistance,"] ''The Electrician'', '''1''' (1): 3–4.</ref> in honor of [[Michael Faraday]], for a unit of quantity of charge, and by 1873, the farad had become a unit of capacitance.<ref>Sir W. Thomson, etc. (1873) [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29853513#page/324/mode/1up "First report of the Committee for the Selection and Nomenclature of Dynamical and Electrical Units,"] ''Report of the 43rd Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science'' (Bradford, September 1873), pp. 222-225. From p. 223: "The "ohm," as represented by the original standard coil, is approximately 10<sup>9</sup> C.G.S. units of resistance: the "volt" is approximately 10<sup>8</sup> C.G.S. units of electromotive force: and the "farad" is approximately 1/10<sup>9</sup> of the C.G.S. unit of capacity."</ref> In 1881, at the International Congress of Electricians in Paris, the name farad was officially used for the unit of electrical capacitance.<ref>(Anon.) (September 24, 1881) [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433090837489;view=1up;seq=309 "The Electrical Congress,"] ''The Electrician'', '''7''': 297. From p. 297: "7. The name farad will be given to the capacity defined by the condition that a coulomb in a farad gives a volt."</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Tunbridge|first1=Paul|title=Lord Kelvin: his influence on electrical measurements and units|date=1992|publisher=Peregrinus|location=London|isbn=9780863412370|pages=26, 39–40|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bZUK624LZBMC|access-date=5 May 2015}}</ref>