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1906 Preliminary Meeting Report (PDF 703 kB)
The minutes from our first meeting.

     

IEC History: 1906-1956 (PDF 954 kB)
Written by former IEC General Secretary Louis Ruppert on the occasion of our 50th anniversary.

     
 

IEC Bulletin - 75th anniversary edition (PDF 519 kB)
The year 1981 marked several important anniversaries for the electrical world - the 150th anniversary of Michael Faraday's discovery of electromagnetic induction on the 29th August 1831; the centenary of the world's first International Electrical Congress in Paris in 1881 where the first International agreement was reached on electrical units; and the 75th anniverary of the constitutive meeting of the IEC.

     
 

1901-2001, Celebrating the Centenary of SI - Giovanni Giorgi's Contribution and the Role of IEC
A book on the contribution of Giovanni Giorgi to the International System of Units (SI).

     
 

Giovanni Giorgi's correspondence with Oliver Heaviside
The original correspondence with British mathematician Oliver Heaviside. In Giorgi’s hands, the ideas of Heaviside became essential elements both for developing new logical descriptions of electromagnetic phenomena and for improving the system of units.

     
   

Handwritten letter (PDF 294 kB)
9 February 1902

Original paper (PDF 1'645 kB)
"Rational Units of Electromagnetism"
with handwritten notes by
Oliver Heaviside

Handwritten letter (PDF 72 kB)
25 February 1902

Typewritten letter (PDF 168 kB)
11 March 1902

Typewritten letter (PDF 448 kB)

Handwritten letter (PDF 266 kB)
29 March 1902

 
 
 
 
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