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Re: A question about current....
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so all this equipent started to be manufactured, the conventions were already in place, and it wasnt until much later that the structure of atoms was theorized and verified that we learned that, well.... we got it backwards
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Franklin was the person that invented the convention of positive to negative. Joseph Thomson discovered that it was backwards. Unfortunately, formulas by that time had been using Franklin's standard.
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Last edited by Adam Y. : 17-05-2004 at 14:32.
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