Woman of the Day engineer, mathematician, inventor and suffragette Hertha Ayrton born OTD 1854 in Portsmouth, the first woman elected to the Institution of Electrical Engineers. She invented the Ayrton gas fan, carried by 100,000 soldiers in the trenches in WW1 to dispel poison… pic.twitter.com/8MK3LFXLOb
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