Anders Angerstein in the family until the 19th century. Anders Angerstein is noted for improvements for charcoal piles during his tenure. In 1981, the former Angerstein steelworks of which he laid the foundation were transformed into the "Steelworks Museum of Vikmanshyttan", maintained as a museum of regional industrial history. Anders Angerstein Anders Angerstein (1614-1659), also called "Andrae Angerstein", was a German-Swedish ironmaster. Anders Angerstein is said to have been born in , Niedersachsen, Holy Roman Empire, with evidence indicating ultimate family origins in Hungary. He immigrated to Sweden along with accompanying miners, first in service of other equally immigrated ironmasters but with
Introduction to the metric system volt and farad in honour of Georg Ohm, Alessandro Volta and Michael Faraday respectively. This proposal had the support of William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) who had been instrumental in forming the Committee of Electrical Standards of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. The use of scientists' names for such units was subsequently extended to other units, including the watt named after James Watt and the degree Celsius named after Anders Celsius. Historically, individual units evolved which were based on the size and context of what was being measured. These units could avoid the need to use large numbers