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	Trotter's reminisences of Hertha Marks Ayrton
		Ayrton had investigated the behaviour of the arc by slowly varying the current between limits for many hours at a time, in fact, often for the greater part of a day.
		Ayrton had assisted greatly in drawing up the three earlier reports, and the fourth was actually sent in over her own name because it embodied her unaided researches, and Professor Ayrton insisted that this should be made clear when it was forwarded to the Admiralty.
		Ayrton was in frequent communication recognized the importance of her improvements.
	cwp.library.ucla.edu /articles/ayrton/ayrtonrem1.html (1517 words)

	Adventures in CyberSound: Ayrton, William Edward
		In 1898, William Ayrton was a member of the editorial committee for the first issue of Science Abstracts published by The Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE).
		From 1904 until 1908, the year of his death, Ayrton and his second wife, Phoebe Marks (who was later to find fame for her work on the electric arc), were sponsored by the Admiralty to work on the electric searchlight.
		Ayrton invented a draftsman's device that could be used for dividing up a line into equal parts as well as for enlarging and reducing figures.
	www.acmi.net.au /AIC/AYRTON_BIO.html (995 words)

	William Edward Ayrton - LoveToKnow 1911
		WILLIAM EDWARD AYRTON (1847-1908), English physicist, was born in London on the 14th of September 1847.
		He was educated at University College, London, and in 1868 went out to Bengal in the service of the Indian Government Telegraph department.
		His wife, Mrs Hertha Ayrton, whom he married in 1885, assisted him in his researches, and became known for her scientific work on the electric arc and other subjects.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /William_Edward_Ayrton (204 words)

	Hertha Marks Ayrton
		Hertha Ayrton, née Phoebe Sarah Marks, was born on April 28, 1854, in Portsea, England, the third of eight children of Levi and Alice Theresa (Moss) Marks.
		Ayrton's personal and social values were profoundly affected by her direct experiences with poverty and discrimination.
		Ayrton took part in the demonstrations of 1910, enduring the physical and verbal abuse wrought upon the demonstrators as well as the disapproval of her more conservative acquaintances.
	cwp.library.ucla.edu /articles/ayrton/ayrtonbio.html (2154 words)

	CWP at physics.UCLA.edu // Hertha Ayrton
		Ayrton's father died when she was seven leaving his family in debt.
		Three years earlier, Ayrton's paper, "The Mechanism of the Electric Arc," had to be read to the Society by a man (John Perry).
		Ayrton began to study sand ripples in 1901 after her husband had become ill and required long stays at the seashore.
	www.physics.ucla.edu /~cwp/Phase2/Ayrton,_Hertha_Marks@841234567.html (597 words)

	William Edward Ayrton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Edward Ayrton (14 September 1847 - 8 November 1908) was a British physicist.
		His wife, Hertha Marks Ayrton, whom he married in 1885, assisted him in his researches, and became known for her scientific work on the electric arc and other subjects.
		William and Matilda's daughter, Edith, married the writer Israel Zangwill.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Edward_Ayrton (343 words)

	ART / 4 / 2DAY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Ayrton executed the work as a dark allegory of the seven deadly sins - pride, envy, anger, sloth, covetousness, gluttony and lust.
		Ayrton illustrated several of Lewis’s books, and was commissioned by his publishers, Methuen and Co., to make this portrait, which he painted from life.
		Ayrton particularly admired Lewis as the founder of the avant garde art movement, Vorticism: the handkerchief in Lewis’s breast pocket is arranged into the angular ‘V’ often used in Vorticist imagery.
	www.jcanu.hpg.ig.com.br /art/art4nov/art1116.html (4523 words)

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		At eighteen, Ayrton went to London University on a math scholarship and graduated with a degree in mathematics in 1867.
		Instead of returning to India, in 1873 Ayrton went to Tokyo, where he took the job of Professor of Physics and Telegraphy at the new Imperial Engineering College in Tokyo, which for a time was the largest technical university in the world.
		Ayrton was Professor of Applied Physics at the Finsbury Institute from 1881 to 1884.
	www.k-web.org /public_html/burke/f4/UpToF_IndividualBios/ayrtonWE.doc (914 words)

	Imperial College - Centenary website - Timeline - 1845-1899 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		William Henry Perkin (1838-1907) discovered the first coal tar dye, mauveine (an aniline dye) — the first synthetic purple coloured dye in 1856 — founding a new industry which revolutionised fabric colouring and on which modern pharmaceuticals are based.
		William Ayrton (pictured left) passed with honours the first ever Bachelor of Arts examination in the University of London in 1867.
		Ayrton and Perry worked together extensively, and collaborated to develop an ammeter, also working on other forms of measuring electricity, the electric tricycle, and a surface-contact system for electric railways.
	www.imperial.ac.uk /centenary/timeline/1845.shtml (4158 words)

	Edward and Dorytye (Raner) Grimshaw
		William was a comrade-in-arms of the Wesley brothers during the formative years of Methodism, and is the subject of a companion webpage on this website.
		William Robinson Grimshaw was born in New York City in 1826 and led an interesting and adventurous life, including time as a sailor on a sailing ship and early involvement in the California Gold Rush in the mid-1800s, as described on a companion webpage.
		------------------Edna Grimshaw (1901 - 1950) and William Edward Halstead (1903 - 1951)
	www.grimshaworigin.org /WebPages/EdwdDory.htm (11529 words)

	British 'Firsts'
		Ayrton invented many of the prototypes of modern electrical measuring instruments, including the ammeter.
		Steptoe, together with biologist Robert Edwards, was the first to succeed in implanting in the womb an egg fertilized outside the body.
		In the 1950s Edwards successfully replanted mouse embryos into the uterus of a mouse and he wondered if the same process could be applied to humans.
	www.fatbadgers.co.uk /Britain/firsts.htm (6892 words)

	WILLIAM EDWARD AYRTON ... - Online Information article about WILLIAM EDWARD AYRTON ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
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		WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. Ger.
		Ayrton, whom he married in 1885, assisted him in his researches, and became known for her scientific See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /AUD_BAI/AYRTON_WILLIAM_EDWARD_1847_1908.html (319 words)

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		Hugo Müller and De la Rue on the subject of the striking distance of arcs showed that the curve recording Professors Ayrton and Perry’s results, connecting the length of an arc with the potential difference between the carbons necessary to maintain the arc, agreed very closely with the curve Drs.
		Müller and De la Rue, compared with those of Professors Ayrton and Perry, showed that the potential difference necessary to make an arc of fixed length between two metallic points was very much greater than was necessary with two carbon points.
		Bidwell’s experiments was shown in his Table 5, containing results obtained with a fixed pressure and a variable current, and he obtained by an increase of current a very considerable diminution in what was called the resistance.
	members.lycos.co.uk /MikePenney/discussion.htm (7767 words)

	Alan Ray-Jones - Chaplins
		Great grandfather Holroyd Chaplin was "a prosperous London solicitor." His brother Ayrton (1842-1930) was a clergyman and headmaster of Stepney and then Uckfield Grammar Schools, who married Edith Elizabeth Pyne from a well known Somerset family, in 1868 - Upton Pyne is a village near Exeter.
		Going further back, John's father was the Rev Edward Chaplin MA (1771-1858), who was first a curate at Watlington, near Downham, Norfolk, and then Chaplain of the St Martin's in the Fields Burial Ground, at Pratt Street, Camden Town, and of the almshouses nearby.
		Edward's father was Amos Chaplin, who married, in 1759, Maria von Stocken, said to be the daughter of the librarian to the King of Prussia; and died in 1792.
	www.ray-jones.org.uk /chaplins.htm (1072 words)

	Hertha Marks Ayrton Summary
		Ayrton was the first woman elected to the Institution of Electrical Engineers (1899) and the first woman permitted to read her paper in person before the Royal Society of London (1904).
		Ayrton's 1902 volume The Electric Arc became the standard text on the subject.
		Hertha Marks Ayrton (1854-1923) attended Girton College, Cambridge where she studied mathematics, and passing the Mathematical Tripos in 1880.
	www.bookrags.com /Hertha_Marks_Ayrton (380 words)

	National Portrait Gallery A-Z of Portrait Sitters (A)
		Mary Florence Gordon (née Clixby), Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair (1857-1937), Fomer wife of Edward Shepherd Cockayne and wife of 2nd Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair; daughter of Joseph Clixby.
		William Charles Keppel, 4th Earl of Albemarle (1772-1849), Master of the Horse.
		William Pitt Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst of Arracan (1773-1857), Statesman; Governor-General of India.
	www.npg.org.uk /live/search/a-z/sitA.asp (3366 words)

	Autograph Letter Signed By Arthur Rucker to Wiliam Ayrton Discussing & Enclosing 3 Offprints of Klemencic. - RUCKER, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Als from Ayrton to Rucker Comments on Data in Klemencic's Offprints and Discusses Atyrton's Work in This Regard.
		Sir Arthur William Rucker (1848-1915) Was a Renowned British Physicist.
		William Edward Ayrton (1847-1908) Was a Noted British Electrical Engineer and Physicist.
	www.antiqbook.com /boox/btb/9992.shtml (237 words)

	Ayrton,Hertha Sarah \| UK Resource Centre for Women in SET (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Ayrton fan was quite capable of rolling it back in the open and, unexpectedly, even by Mrs.
		Ayrton, of clearing dugouts into which gas had fallen.' A. Trotter, President of The Institution of Electrical Engineers.
		Hertha Ayrton Research Fellowship established in Gorton College, Cambridge.
	www.setwomenresource.org.uk /en/role_models/pioneers/ayrton_hertha_sarah (612 words)

	William Hazlitt (1778-1830), Chapter TWELVE -- .
		William Grenville, the foreign secretary since 1791, formed the government of "All the Talents" which was dissolved in 1807.
		I know little of William Ayrton beyond the years of his birth and death, 1777 and 1858.
		Edward "Ned" Phillips: I have not been able to determine who this man is.
	www.blupete.com /Literature/Biographies/Literary/Hazlitt/Ch012.htm (1740 words)

	ayrton crash senna
		Ayrton was baptized by accident ayrton senna by all the medias of thousand words: Magic.
		Ayrton Senna drives Honda NSX at Suzuka (great onboard shots too) Ayrton_Senna_Devotion: For all Ayrton Senna fans who want to communicate on a regular basis about.
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	Gerald Gould at AllExperts
		He married Barbara Bodichon Ayrton (1888-1950), suffragette and after his death on the Labour National Executive and a Labour Party MP 1945-1950; she was daughter of the scientists William Edward Ayrton and Hertha Marks Ayrton.
		The artist Michael Ayrton (1921-1975) was their son.
		Ewer, Harold Laski, William Mellor and Francis Meynell.
	en.allexperts.com /e/g/ge/gerald_gould.htm (289 words)

	Manuscripts Catalogue
		Reporting on work in progress and mentioning Professor Ayrton, Shields, Gray, Wilson and Buchanan.
		Reporting on an electrical fault between "the house" and the Laboratory, and suggesting that tests show it to be near the...
		Reporting on work in progress and mentioning the provision of a voltmeter for an American customer, Professor Ayrton's balance,...
	special.lib.gla.ac.uk /manuscripts/search/resultsn.cfm?NID=7858&RID= (184 words)

	The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, vol 6
		William Ayrton April 16 From the original, lately in the possession of Mr.
		Paris was a sister of William Ayrton and the mother of John Ayrton Paris, the physician.
		Moreover that if the said William and Frances will go and sit an hour with her at any time, she will engage that no one else shall see them but herself, and the servant who opens the door, she being confined to her private room.
	manybooks.net /support/l/lambchma/lambchma10851085110851-8.exp.html (20998 words)

	evershed
		William Edward Ayrton (1847 - 1908) English engineer and inventor, with his colleague John Perry (1850 - 1920) invented many electrical measuring instruments.
		The pointer was fixed to the coil assembly and the coil connections were ligaments, no hairsprings since the only influence on the coils was that of a powerful permanent magnet.
		It also enabled the generator and meter to be combined into one instrument as it was no longer necessary to obviate interference from the permanent magnet field of the generator.
	www.richardsradios.co.uk /evershed.html (1950 words)

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		WILLIAM J. (William Berryman Scott) a Partial Skeleton of Homalodontotherium from the Santa Cruz Beds of Patagonia.
		21629: SEGUIN, EDWARD C. A Lecture on the Localization of Diseases in the Spinal Cord, Delivered Before the Anatomical and Surgical Society of Brooklyn.
	www.antiqbook.com /boox/btb/books11000.shtml (5950 words)

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		The original theory of Edison, that it is due to a reduction of the internal resistance of carbon by pressure, is probably not maintained any longer, in face of the numerous experiments showing that there is exceedingly little reduction, if any.
		Then there is a theory, supported, I believe, by Sir William Thomson, that the action is due to an increase or diminution in the area of surface-contact produced by increase or diminution of pressure.
		Shelford Bidwell, and I therefore propose that we adjourn the discussion until that evening.
	members.lycos.co.uk /MikePenney/supplement.htm (7162 words)

	Syntonic Wireless Telegraphy--Ayrton Prediction (1901) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		William Edward Ayrton was born in 1847, and died seven years after this article appeared, long before his prediction about personal communication by radio came true.
		for June 15 and 22, before the Society of Arts, in London, Professor W. Ayrton being in the chair, the following discussion took place...
		A small reply would come, "I am at the bottom of a coal mine, or crossing the Andes, or in the middle of the Pacific." Or, perhaps, in spite of all the calling, no reply would come, and the person would then know that his friend was dead.
	earlyradiohistory.us /1901ayrt.htm (149 words)

	November 8 - Today in Science History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Allison's reported discovery was premature because of poor experimental design and experimenter bias.
		In 1910, the first U.S. patent for an "electric insect destroyer" was issued to William H. Frost of Spokane, Washington (No. 974,785).
		The invention used a number of electrically energized parallel wires such that a flying insect passing between them would complete the circuit by bridging the wires with its body and electrocute the insect.
	www.todayinsci.com /11/11_08.htm (2177 words)

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		Conceived by the late Paul Apak Angilirq, who co-wrote the screenplay, the film was shot on widescreen digital video by Norman Cohn (one of the few non-Inuit crew members on the shoot) and directed by Zacharias Kunuk.
		Kunuk and his crew meticulously re-created the conditions the Inuit tribes lived under before exposure to Southern influences, using information handed down from tribe elders and the journals of Captain William Edward Parry, a British explorer who visited the area in 1822.
		William Holden and Glenn Ford, looking collectively 28 years old, play a couple of ex-Confederate soldiers who get into all sorts of trouble in a wide-open Texas town.
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	Extending Man's Voice by Wire and Radio, 1879 - 1905
		It was only 1879 when William Edward Ayrton, an electrical engineer who did a great deal of work in electrical measurements and better known for his Ayrton shunt and the Ayrton–Mather galvanometer, pioneered electricity as a motive power for railways.
		Electric trolleys soon traversed the larger cities in the United States, and by 1895 the first main–line railway was electrified.
		On June 4, 1897, Sir William Preece reported to the Royal Institution on progress in "Signaling Through Space Without Wires." His concluding remarks again show the difficulty of farseeing beyond solutions to immediate problems.
	www.luminet.net /~wenonah/history/edpart3.htm (3395 words)

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