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Hertha Ayrton 1854 - 1923
Hertha Ayrton was the first woman to read a paper to the Royal Society and the first woman member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE).
Her work on the electric arc was a precursor to the field of plasma physics and her studies of hydrodynamics led to the Ayrton fan, designed to dispel heavy poison gas from the trenches of the first World War.
Hertha Ayrton was born on 28 April 1854 in Portsea, England as Sarah Marks, the third of eight children of Levi and Alice Marks.
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Her father died in 1861, leaving the family in debt. Her mother believed that girls needed education more than boys as they have a harder battle to fight in the world and struggled to support her family thorough her needlework.
When Sarah was nine Alice's sister offered to educate Sarah at her school in London where she