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AYRTON, Hertha Daughter of Levi and Alice Marks.
(Excerpt from The Electric Arc This book, which owes its ...)
Excerpt from The Electric Arc This book, which owes its origin to a series of articles published in The Electrician in 1895-6, has attained to its present proportions almost with the growth of an organic body. In experimenting on the are, my aim was not so much to add to the large number of isolated facts that had already been discovered, as to form some idea of the bearing of these upon one another, and thus to arrive at a clear conception of what takes place in each part of the are and carbons at every moment The attempt to correlate all the known phenomena, and to bind them together into one consistent whole, led to the deduction of new facts, which, when duly tested by experiment, became parts of the growing body, and, themselves, opened up fresh questions, to be answered in their turn by experiment. Thus the subject grew and developed in what might almost be called a natural way. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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AYRTON, Hertha Daughter of Levi and Alice Marks.
Studied at private school. Girtou College, Cambridge.
Invented and constructed a line divider. Assisted in the completion of a series of experiments on the electric arc for Professor Ayrton during his absence in America, 1893. Has carried out several series of experiments on the same subject since.
Discovered the connection between current length and pressure in the arc, the cause and laws of hissing in it, etc. Has carried out various researches connected with the motion of water, and has discovered causes and process of formation of sand - ripples on the seashore. Nominated for Fellowship of Royal Society, 1902, but, on counsel’s opinion, the Council had no power to elect a woman.
Hughes medal (gold) awarded by the Royal Society, 1908. The only woman member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers.
(Excerpt from The Electric Arc This book, which owes its ...)
Spouse 1885, Prof. W. E. Ayrton (d.