Manuscripts, typescripts and printed materials related to Hertha Ayrton

Made:: 1854-1923

maker:: Ayrton, Hertha

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This collection documents three of Ayrton's major areas of research: the formation of sand ripples under water by ripple-forming vortices; the creation of satisfactory specifications for the carbons used in searchlight projectors, as requested by the Admiralty; and the invention of the Ayrton Fan for dispelling clouds of poison gas in WWI.

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Identifier:: MS/2168

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Manuscripts, typescripts and printed materials related to Hertha Ayrton

MS/2168/1 Lecture "Sand ripples and oscillating water"
MS/2168/2 Critique of Ayrton's paper "On some new facts connected with the motion of oscillating water"
MS/2168/3 Paper "Primary and residual vortices in oscillating fluids -Their connection with skin friction,"
MS/2168/4 Notebooks concerning research on Ayrton Fans
MS/2168/5 Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series A, vol 96, no A 676
MS/2168/6 Claim by Ayrton's estate for an award for the Admiralty's use of her negative carbons
MS/2168/7 Book entitled: "Hertha Ayrton: A Memoir"