William Edward Ayrton
1847 - 1908

- Born
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14 September 1847
London, England
- Died
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08/11/1908
His House, 41 Norfolk Square, London
- Nationality
- British
- Gender
- Male
- Date of election for Royal Society fellowship
- 02/06/1881
- Occupation
- Electrical engineer
- Relationships
- Son of Edward Nugent Ayrton, Barrister. Married: 1) Matilda Chaplin MD, his cousin; 2) (1885) Sarah (Hertha) Marks, daughter of Levi and Alice Marks. She received the Hughes Medal (1906) and was the only contemporary woman member of the Institute of Civil Engineers
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- Wikipedia
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Author of
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Paper, 'A new form of spring for electric and other measuring instruments' by W E [William Edward] Ayrton and John Perry
Creator: William Edward Ayrton, John Perry Reference number: PP/4/27 -
Paper, 'The measurement of the power given by any electric current to any circuit' by William Edward Ayrton and W E [William Edward] Sumpner
Creator: William Edward Ayrton Reference number: PP/17/31 -
Referee's report by William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, on a paper 'The contact theory of voltaic action.—Paper No. III' by William Edward Ayrton and John Perry
Creator: William Thomson Reference number: RR/8/147 -
Referee's report by James Thomson Bottomley, on a paper 'Quadrant electrometers' by William Edward Ayrton, John Perry and W E Sumpner
Creator: James Thomson Bottomley Reference number: RR/11/5 -
Referee's report by George Carey Foster, on a paper 'The thermal emissivity of thin wires in air' by William Edward Ayrton and H Kilgour
Creator: George Carey Foster Reference number: RR/11/6 -
Referee's report by William Grylls Adams, on a paper 'The thermal emissivity of thin wires in air' by William Edward Ayrton and H Kilgour
Creator: William Grylls Adams Reference number: RR/11/7
Referee of
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Referee's report by William Edward Ayrton, on a paper 'Experiments to determine the value of the British Association unit of resistance in absolute measure' by John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh
Creator: William Edward Ayrton Reference number: RR/8/346 -
Referee's report by William Edward Ayrton, on a paper 'On seismic experiments' by John Milne and T Gray
Creator: William Edward Ayrton Reference number: RR/9/77 -
Referee's report by William Edward Ayrton, on a paper 'Magnetic and other physical properties of iron at a high temperature' by John Hopkinson
Creator: William Edward Ayrton Reference number: RR/10/275 -
Referee's report by William Edward Ayrton, on a paper 'Experiments on the resistance of electrolytic cells' by Matthew Henry Phineas Riall Sankey
Creator: William Edward Ayrton Reference number: RR/10/294 -
Referee's report by William Edward Ayrton, on a paper 'The rupture of steel by longitudinal stress' by Charles A Carus-Wilson
Creator: William Edward Ayrton Reference number: RR/10/333 -
Letter from William Edward Ayrton, to Herbert Rix, regarding a paper 'On the asymmetrical distribution of terrestrial magentism' by Henry Wilde
Creator: William Edward Ayrton Reference number: RR/10/391