Engineering an electrical future
The Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE)
The Institution exists to promote electrical, manufacturing and information engineering. It helps its members to develop their careers. It also provides expert advice to government and other organisations.
The Institution publishes a wide range of print and electronic publications covering electrical and electronic engineering, physics, computing, control and software engineering and related subjects in information technology.
Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday's researches at the Royal Institution covered many aspects of physics and chemistry.
He is honoured by a statue beside the entrance to the Institution of Electrical Engineers because he discovered that it is possible to generate electricity in a wire by means of the electromagnetic effect of a current in another wire and made the first electrical generator. All the generators in power stations are based on Faraday's principles.
Hertha Ayrton
The IEE web site also celebrates the work of Hertha Ayrton who was the first woman to be admitted as a member. Her schooling was in London and after a university course at Cambridge she returned to London and attended classes at Finsbury Technical College. After her marriage she carried out research into the behaviour of electric arcs.
Submitted by: Andrew Hunt, 20 January 2007
