Electr. Also veber. [After the German physicist Wilhelm Weber (1804–91).] A name (now disused) for the unit of electrical quantity (now COULOMB) and the unit of electrical current (now AMPÈRE).
1876. Preece & Sivewright, Telegraphy, 3. The unit quantity of electricity in general use has been called a weber.
1879. G. Prescott, Sp. Telephone, 469. In the veber current and the electro-motive force, we have the data for comparing the work of these machines.
1881. Rep. Brit. Assoc., 425. The current produced by a Volt acting through an Ohm … is called a Weber.
1881. S. P. Thompson, in Jrnl. Soc. Arts, XXX. 32/2. To tear away a single gramme of hydrogen from the oxygen with which it is combined requires no less than 95,050 webers (‘coulombs’) to flow through.
1883. J. Swinburne, Pract. Electr. Units, 28. The coulomb has taken the place of the weber as unit of quantity, and the ampère is used instead of the weber-per-second as unit of current.
