Edward Weston
1850 – 1936
Made precision electrical measurement an industrial commodity.
A British-American chemist and inventor, Weston developed the portable precision electrical instruments and the manganin resistance alloy that made calibrated current and voltage measurement an industrial reality in the 1890s.
The shunt-resistor tools here trace to his near-zero-temperature-coefficient alloy and the meters built around it. His standard cell defined the volt for decades.
Portrait: a stylized blueprint-line rendering, not a photograph.
Contributions in the toolbox
- 1884
Manganin — the near-zero-tempco resistance alloy.
→ Shunt Resistor - 1893
Portable precision instruments make shunt measurement standard practice.
→ Shunt Resistor