Electr. [short f. Faraday, name of a great English electrician (died 1867): a term adopted at the Electrical Congress in Paris, 1881.]
1881. Maxwell, Electr. & Magn., II. 246. The practical unit of capacity is called the Farad.
1892. Gloss. Electrical Terms, in Lightning, 3 March, Supp. 7. The Farad is the capacity of a conductor in which the electrical pressure is raised one volt by the addition of one coulomb.
