James Maxwell, Andre-Marie Ampere,Hans Christian Oersted,Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, Isaac Newton's Ampere, were once involved in this stuff in one way or another. It appears as though there may be someone in this series of posts that will be adding their name to this list.
But anyhoe, the Apmere has been defined as
A unit of electric current in the meter-kilogram-second system. It is the steady current that when flowing in straight parallel wires of infinite length and negligible cross section, separated by a distance of one meter in free space, produces a force between the wires of 2 × 10-7 newtons per meter of length.
A unit in the International System specified as one International coulomb per second and equal to 0.999835 ampere.
The question is if coulomb is the number of electrons or is the number of charges. If is is the num,ber of charges then one charge is bumped to the next atom and that atom bumps the charge to the next but the electrons themselves really don't trave so to speak.
