At 11:38 PM 4/4/2009, David Beierl wrote...
>In the beginning was the Word.  Or in our case, the Unit.  The
>fundamental unit of electricity is the coulomb,

The SI base unit of electricity is the ampere, 
which is that constant current which, if 
maintained in two straight parallel conductors of 
infinite length, of negligible circular 
cross-section, and placed 1 meter apart in 
vacuum, would produce between these conductors a 
force equal to 2 x 10-7 newton per meter of length.

The coulomb is a derived unit ( C = s�A ).