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Hertha Marks Ayrton. April 28, 1854 - August 23, 1923. Phoebe Sarah Marks was born in Portsea, England in 1854. She changed her first name to Hertha when she was a teenager. After passing the Cambridge University Examination for Women with honors in English and mathematics, she attended Girton College at Cambridge University, the first ...
Hertha Marks, who had already made the acquaintance of Prof. Ayrton, began to attend his lectures and laboratory in the autumn of 1884, and they were married in the spring of the following year. During the Chicago Electrical Conference of 1893, a Negro servant lighted a fire with a paper written by Ayrton on "Variation of Potential Difference ...
In the late 19th century, arc lights were a common form of lighting. The devices produce light from a spark (or electric arc) generated in the air between two carbon rods. Among several drawbacks, they suffered from flicker and produced a hissing sound. Hertha Ayrton, a British engineer, discovered that the cause of arc light flicker was oxygen reacting with the carbon filament. Though eager to share her findings, the Royal Society barred her from presenting the work due to her sex and a man ...
Hertha (Sarah) Marks Ayrton 1854-1923 Some Important Contributions: Her work on the electric arc was a precursor to the field of plasma physics. She discovered the connection between pressure in the arc and current length, and the composition and shape of the electrodes. -- Professor Walter Gekelman.
Oct 30, 2023 · Hertha Ayrton was an extraordinary woman, not only because she was the first woman to grace this Institution, but because of the impact she appears to have had on anyone who came into contact with her. As her husband, Professor William Ayrton, once said to her cousin, Dr Philip Hartog, “you and I are able people, but Hertha is a genius.”
Feb 2, 2018 · Naomi Alderman tells the inspiring story of Hertha Marks Ayrton whose work helped shape how we use electricity today. Animation by Aoife McKenna, 2 February 2018. Made by BBC Ideas and. Radio 4.
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Jul 1, 1991 · Hertha Ayrton 1-5 was born as Phoebe Sarah Marks, the third of eight children of a Jewish watchmaker and jeweller of Petworth, Sussex, who had emigrated from Poland to escape the pogroms. He died when she was seven, leaving his pregnant wife and seven children (six sons) in poverty.
