 |  | | | Hertha Ayrton | 05 June 2007 | | |
 Eminent scientist and Suffragette
41 Norfolk Square was an important place for the scientist, Hertha Ayrton. It was here, in her first floor laboratory, that she invented the Ayrton Fan, used to disperse poisonous gases from the trenches during the First World War. It was also here that she welcomed fellow suffragettes, like Emmeline Pankhurst, on their release from prison as hunger-strikers. Hertha Ayrton was an expert on the electric arc and the first woman member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers. With her home in Norfolk Square being commemorated with a Blue Plaque, Ritula talks to Susan Skedd, Blue Plaques Historian for English Heritage and Anne Locker, Archivist at the Institution of Engineering and Technology, formerly the Institution of Electrical Engineers.English Heritage - Blue PlaquesDisclaimer
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