The instrument described is the outcome of conversations between the late Professor J. Viriamu Jones, F. R. S., and one of the authors (W. E. A.), on their return from the British Association Meeting held in Toronto in 1897. Its object was to determine “ the ampere ” as defined in the C. G. S. system, to an accuracy comparable with that attained in the absolute determination of the ohm by Lorenz’s apparatus, an account of which was given by Professors Ayrton and Jones at the Toronto Meeting. Professor Jones had previously developed a convenient formula for calculating the electromagnetic force between a helical current and a coaxial current sheet, viz., F =
γ
h
γ
(M
2
-M
1
),† where
γ
h
is the current in the helix, the
γ
current per unit length of the current sheet, and M
1
, M
2
the coefficients of mutual induction of the helix and the two ends of the current sheet respectively. By using coaxial coils with single layers of wire wound in screw-thread grooves, advantage could be taken of the above formula.
Internal Current Return Path for Ground Leakage Current Mitigation in Current Source Inverters