[1] The unit name honours James Clerk Maxwell,[2] who presented a unified theory of electromagnetism.
The maxwell was recommended as a CGS unit at the International Electrical Congress held in 1900 at Paris.
[5] The maxwell was affirmed again unanimously as the unit name for magnetic flux at the Plenary Meeting of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) in July 1930 at Oslo.
[6] In 1933, the Electric and Magnetic Magnitudes and Units committee of the IEC recommended to adopt the metre–kilogram–second (MKS) system (Giorgi system), and the name weber was proposed for the practical unit of magnetic flux (Φ), subject to approval of various national committees, which was achieved in 1935.
[8] That is, one maxwell is the total flux across a surface of one square centimetre perpendicular to a magnetic field of strength one gauss.