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In 1901, a woman solved the biggest problem in electrical engineering. But the Royal Society wouldn't let her present her own paper. A man read her words while she sat in silence. Then they rejected her as a Fellow because she was married. Then she invented a device that saved soldiers choking on poison gas in WWI. The War Office laughed at her. Then they ordered 104,000 of them. Her name was Hertha Ayrton. She held 26 patents. She was the first woman in the IEE. And most people have never heard her name....
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