Question about Coulomb

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From: Doug Dias
Date: Mon, 02 May 1994 15:19

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 Here's another question posed by students:
Historically, where did the amount of charge on an electron get its value
from? I know that a Coulomb is based upon an Ampere, but before they were
defined, where did the actual value originate?  This is more of a history
question, than physics, but we were wondering...

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