She achieved a considerable number of "firsts" for women in aeronautics, as well as making contributions in the areas of astronomy and botany.

Ten hours later, they landed near Neath in South Wales, a narrow escape from drifting out over the Atlantic although she broke her arm.

[1] Roger Sommer took her up in a Farman biplane on 29 August 1909, during the First International aviation gathering at Rheims, France.

Adams had made the first successful complete flight from water and safely back again, in Britain, on 25 November 1911.

Visiting Scotland on 23 July 1923, Gertrude Bacon and botanist and illustrator Lady Joanna Charlotte Davy (1865–1955)[10] made the first discovery of Carex microglochin (bristle sedge) in Great Britain.

[1] In the early 1900s, Bacon lived with one of her brothers in Greenwich in London where he was an instructor in engineering at the Royal Naval College.

During the First World War she was a Red Cross volunteer, working initially with post at Devonshire House in London but later in charge of this postal operation.

[1] In 1929, Gertrude Bacon married a fellow botanist and chemist, Thomas Jackson Foggitt (2 March 1858 – 30 October 1934).

After her husband's death in 1934, she moved to join another brother, Frederick, who was the professor of engineering at University College, Swansea.

They included: In 1900, she wrote about her visit to the Dolcoath copper and tin mine in Cornwall in Good Words 41 pages 341–8.