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Electric Dreams 2024 - Hertha Ayrton A Shining Light
Heritage Open Day: Join the Women's Engineering Society in their Electric Dreams 2024 series of talks as they celebrate the forming of Electrical Association for Women 100 years ago. This talk by Dr Patricia Fara, is organised in conjunction with the Whipple Museum. A prolific inventor and suffrage campaigner, Hertha Ayrton (1854-1923) was one of Cambridge University’s first female scientists. Despite winning prestigious awards for her research into electricity and sand ripples, she was excluded from the Royal Society, but has now become an iconic figurehead encouraging women to pursue scientific careers.
Join WES and Dr Patricia Fara, Emeritus Fellow and author of 'A Lab of One's Own' and 'Life After Gravity', at the Whipple Museum as we look into the exciting life of woman electrical engineer, Hertha Ayrton.
Tues 10 Sep:1500-1600; Free Entry.
Whipple Museum, Free School Lane, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB2 3RQ
Tue 10 September