“跌watt”的意思和来源？

One might well ask how many European scientists it takes to turn on a light bulb. If we think in terms of the names used for various units in the International, or meter-kilogram-second, System, a fair number are involved. Alphabetically arranged, these units are the ampere, named for the French scientist Andr? Marie Ampère (1775-1836); the coulomb, after the French scientist Charles A. de Coulomb (1736-1806); the farad and the faraday, after the British scientist Michael Faraday (1791-1867); the joule, after the British scientist James P. Joule (1818-1889); the newton, after the British scientist Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727); the ohm, after the German scientist Georg S. Ohm (1789-1854); the volt, after the Italian scientist Count Alessandro Volta (1745-1827); and the watt, after the British scientist James Watt (1736-1819). Definitions such as that of ohm, “a unit of electrical resistance equal to that of a conductor in which a current of one ampere is produced b