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Today's Google Doodle: Hertha Marks Ayrton's 162nd birthday
British engineer and inventor Hertha Marks Ayrton is honoured with today's Google Doodle , 162 years after her birth.
Born Phoebe Sarah Marks in Portsea, Hampshire, on April 28, 1854, she was the oldest of three children of a Polish watchmaker and a British seamstress.
Marks was a celebrated engineer, physicist and inventor who was awarded the Hughes Medal in 1906 by the Royal Society for her work on electric arcs and ripples in sand and water.
'When a wave washes over sand, ripples will appear.'
This simple observation was a scientific mystery until Marks read "The Origin and Growth of Ripple Marks" to the Royal Society in 1904.
She was first woman to do so.
More at link: http://www.mirror.co.uk/tech/hertha-marks-ayrton-british-engineer-7850131
Born Phoebe Sarah Marks in Portsea, Hampshire, on April 28, 1854, she was the oldest of three children of a Polish watchmaker and a British seamstress.
Marks was a celebrated engineer, physicist and inventor who was awarded the Hughes Medal in 1906 by the Royal Society for her work on electric arcs and ripples in sand and water.
'When a wave washes over sand, ripples will appear.'
This simple observation was a scientific mystery until Marks read "The Origin and Growth of Ripple Marks" to the Royal Society in 1904.
She was first woman to do so.
