MRS. AYRTON'S DISCOVERIES.
LONDON, November 5. The Royal Society has conferred the Hughes medal on Mrs. W. E. Ayrton, wife of Professor Ayrton, for investigations in the electric arc and oound ripples. [Mrs. Ayrton (nee Herl.n Marks), who was nominated for a f- lowship of the Royal Society in 1902. but whose nomination as . woman was declared invalid, begai serious scientific investigation by assisting in the completion of a series of experiments on the electric arc of Professor Ayrton during that scientist's absence in America in 1893, since which time she has carried out several series of experiments on the same subject. Her crowning achievament was the di°covery of the connection between current length and pressure in the arc, the cause and laws of the characteristic hissing, and other similar issues of the same problem. Mrs. Ayrton published a book on "The Electric Arc" in 1902, and has read papers before the Royal Society and the British Association.!. j
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 259, 6 November 1906, Page 5
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