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Referee's report by Joseph Ernest Petavel, on a paper 'Experiments with the Hopkinson pressure bar' by J W Landon and H Quinney

Reference number: RR/29/19

Date: May 1923

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Sectional committee: Engineering sciences

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, in full. It 'adds to the technical information available with regard to a valuable method of measuring the pressure produced in the detonation of high explosives'.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1923].

Endorsed on verso as received 15 May 1923.

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RR/29/19
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May 1923
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Standardised form (type D)
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4 pages
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Typescript

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Joseph Ernest Petavel

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Joseph Ernest Petavel, Referee's report by Joseph Ernest Petavel, on a paper 'Experiments with the Hopkinson pressure bar' by J W Landon and H Quinney, May 1923, RR/29/19, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_29_19/referees-report-by-joseph-ernest-petavel-on-a-paper-experiments-with-the-hopkinson-pressure-bar-by-j-w-landon-and-h-quinney, accessed on 06 October 2024

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