The Net Advance of Physics:
History and Philosophy: Hertha Ayrton

Mme. Ayrton by Mme. Darmesteter
[Cassier's Magazine 36, 551 (1909)]

• Hertha Ayrton by Pam Hirsch [Jewish Women's Archive]
• Hertha Marks Ayrton by Larry Riddle [Agnes Scott College]
• Almost a Fellow: Hertha Ayrton and an embarrassing episode in the history of the Royal Society by Felicity Henderson [2012/03]
• Reminiscences of Mrs. Ayrton by A. P. Trotter [Institution of Electrical Engineers]
• Hertha Ayrton: A Memoir by Evelyn Sharp [London: Arnold, 1926]
• The Call by Edith Zangwill [London: Allen & Unwin, 1924] A thinly-disguised biographical novel by Ayrton's step-daughter.

• WORKS:
  • The Hissing of the Electric Arc by Hertha Ayrton [J. Proc. Inst. Elec. Eng. 28, 400 (1899)]
  • The Mechanism of the Electric Arc by Hertha Ayrton [R. S. L. Proc. 68, 410 (1901)]
  • The Mechanism of the Electric Arc [a much longer version] by Hertha Ayrton [Phil. Trans. R. S. L. 199, 299 (1901)]
  • The Electric Arc by Hertha Ayrton [London: The Electrician, 1902]
  • On the Non-Periodic or Residual Motion of Water Moving in Stationary Waves by Hertha Ayrton [R. S. L. Proc. A 80, 252 (1908)]
  • The Origin and Growth of Ripple-mark by Hertha Ayrton [R. S. L. Proc. A 84, 290 (1910)]
  • Local Differences of Pressure Near an Obstacle in Oscillating Water by Hertha Ayrton [R. S. L. Proc A 91, 405 (1915)]
  • On a New Method of Driving off Poisonous Gases by Hertha Ayrton [R. S. L. Proc A 96, 249 (1919)]
    • An Account of the History of the Ayrton Fan by A. P. Trotter. [Institution of Electrical Engineers] During the Great War, Mrs. Ayrton invented a machine that used what would now be called solitons to repel poison gas. Although the device worked, and was even deployed on the Western Front in a few places, Ayrton encountered an insuperable and timeless difficulty which Trotter (a prominent engineer of the era himself) describes thus: "exasperating officials who would not listen to anything new because they shirked the responsibility of giving a decision ... the obdurate nonchalance of those who were trained to be afraid of considering a thing on its merits".

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