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Join Lost Women of Science , the award-winning podcast that tells the stories of remarkable - and largely unheralded - female scientists throughout history, for an evening celebrating Royal Society Hughes Medal-winner Hertha Ayrton: inventor, engineer, suffragette, trailblazer and firefighter. This special recording of Lost Women of Science Conversations: Hertha Ayrton - Electrical Engineer Extraordinaire will be hosted by acclaimed broadcaster and author, Claudia Hammond . Joining Claudia will be Professor Dame Polina Bayvel FRS (Royal Society Research Professor, Professor of Optical Communications & Networks, UCL, and Head of Optical Networks Group) and Helen Arney (science presenter and writer of the musical The Cambridge First All-Ladies Fire Brigade , which features Hertha’s story). In this interactive discussion and podcast recording, science, history, music and storytelling come together to celebrate Hertha Ayrton and shine a light on her scientific ingenuity, including how she made electric lighting safer and invented a fan to disperse poisonous gas from WWI trenches. The panel will also delve into her relationship with the Royal Society and explore the strong bonds between her scientific endeavours and social activism. About Lost Women of Science Lost Women of Science is a non-profit educational organisation based in the USA that tells the remarkable stories of groundbreaking female scientists who never received the recognition they deserved - until now. Attending the event This recording will take place in person at the Royal Society. This event is free to join, but prebooking is required to attend. We will release tickets in batches. Batch 1 is available from 1 October , Batch 2 from 15 October, and Last Chance Tickets from 29 October. Please note that as this is a free event, we anticipate that not everyone who reserves tickets will use them and we therefore make more tickets available than there are seats. You are highly unlikely to be refused entry but please be aware that admission is on a first-come, first-served basis and not guaranteed. Please arrive early to secure a seat. Live subtitles will be available. Doors will open at 6.30pm. Find travel and accessibility information on our website. Please email public.engagement@royalsociety.org with any access requirements or questions. This recording will be made available at a later date as a podcast episode and will also be released on the Royal Society YouTube channel.

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