[Amps] "Conventional" current flow

[Ron Youvan]

On 11/19/2016 03:38 PM, Jerry O. Stern wrote:

> Great explanation as always.  So if "flow" is a mathematical construct, in
> the early days of modern electricity why did the great fathers arbitrarily
> pick current flow opposite of electron movement?  Couldn't they have
> reversed it and maintained the concept at least wrt electrons while
> maintaining the same mathematical construct of ignoring the sign of the
> charges?

   I think the cement had set before electrons had been discovered in a 
ancient dig is darkest Africa.
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