Electrical Engineering

held 26 patents: 5 on mathematical dividers, 13 on arc lamps & electrodes, & 8 on the propulsion of air; her interest in vortices in water & air inspired the Ayrton fan or flapper used in trenches during WWI to dispel poison & gases; helped found the International Federation of University women in 1919 & the National Union of Scientific workers in 1920; developed the Ayrton Equation that exhibited a linear relation between arc lengths, pressure, & potential difference

26 British/European patents

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