Work with the electric arc, discovery with waves and ripple
Spouse
William Edward Ayrton
Children
Barbara Bodichon Ayrton
Awards
Hughes Medal (1906)
Scientific career
Fields
Engineer, mathematician, physicist, inventor
Phoebe Sarah Hertha Ayrton (28 April 1854 – 26 August 1923[1]) was a British engineer, mathematician, physicist and inventor, and suffragette. Known in adult life as Hertha Ayrton, born Phoebe Sarah Marks, she was awarded the Hughes Medal by the Royal Society for her work on electric arcs and ripple marks in sand and water.
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Phoebe Sarah HerthaAyrton (28 April 1854 – 26 August 1923) was a British engineer, mathematician, physicist and inventor, and suffragette. Known in adult...
Their daughter Barbara Ayrton-Gould became a Labour MP; grandson Michael Ayrton was an artist and sculptor. Hertha and William Ayrton acted as guardians for...
of HerthaAyrton". Science Museum Group Journal. Science Museum, London. doi:10.15180/181002. S2CID 240796451. Retrieved 23 May 2019. Ayrton, Hertha (June...
later numbers 24–42. Notable residents have included the scientist HerthaAyrton who live there from 1903 to 1923 and is now commemorated with a blue...
electric arcs to flicker and hiss was a major problem. In 1895, Hertha Marks Ayrton wrote a series of articles for the Electrician, explaining that these...
but did spend time in England with her friend and fellow physicist, HerthaAyrton. She returned to her laboratory only in December, after a break of about...
and activist Edmund Ayrton (1734–1808), English organist Edward R. Ayrton (1882–1914), British Egyptologist Hertha Marks Ayrton (1854–1923), British...
positions, for example. Mary Anning Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Aristotle HerthaAyrton Charles Babbage Julian Barbour Robert Boyle James Braid Mark Catesby...
and she was supported for a time by guardians, William Edward and HerthaAyrton.[page needed] She attended South Kensington School of Art Finsbury Central...
the Flieger-Flab-Museum Dübendorf. A Mamba is also on display at the HerthaAyrton STEM Centre, Sheffield Hallam University, UK. Data from Aircraft engines...
inventor of the hydraulic accumulator and breech-loading, rifled artillery HerthaAyrton (1854–1923), pioneered the science of electric arcs and ripples in sand...
The novelist Sarah Doudney was born in Portsea on 15 January 1841. HerthaAyrton, British engineer, mathematician, physicist and inventor, was born there...
doi:10.1111/j.1540-8159.1992.tb03013.x. PMID 1279591. S2CID 24234010. HerthaAyrton. The Electric Arc, pp. 20 and 94. D. Van Nostrand Co., New York, 1902...
Press. p. 23. ISBN 978-0-521-05341-9. Cary & Helzer 2005, pp. 102–103 HerthaAyrton. The Electric Arc, pp. 20 and 94. D. Van Nostrand Co., New York, 1902...
at Blackberry Hill, Wisconsin. Capillary wave Giant current ripples HerthaAyrton - pioneer in description of how ripples formed Water on Mars - sedimentary...
Census 1851 England Census 1861 England Census Mason, Joan (July 1991). "HerthaAyrton (1854–1923) and the Admission of Women to the Royal Society of London"...
Barbara Ayrton, and took his mother's maiden name professionally. His maternal grandmother was the electrical engineer and inventor, Hertha Marks Ayrton. In...
resistance of a passive device could not be negative. Beginning in 1895 HerthaAyrton, extending her husband William's research with a series of meticulous...
William Edward Ayrton and the doctor Matilda Chaplin Ayrton. Her mother died in 1883 and her father married the physicist HerthaAyrton. Edith was brought...
in the 19th century, including Sarah Guppy, Henrietta Vansittart and HerthaAyrton. During the first two decades of the 20th century new opportunities...
researches in electrical science, including electric vibrations" 1906 HerthaAyrton "for her experimental investigations on the electric arc, and also on...
Society has been governed for more than three hundred years". When HerthaAyrton was nominated for fellowship in 1902, her candidature was turned down...
welding Oxy-fuel welding Friction stir welding Weman 2003, pp. 31, 37–38 HerthaAyrton. The Electric Arc, pp. 20 and 94. D. Van Nostrand Co., New York, 1902...
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