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Second letter from Edward Victor Appleton, to John David Griffith Davies, regarding a paper 'Supersonic dispersion in gases II. Air containing water vapour' by M Mokhtar and E G Richardson

Reference number: RR/66/172

Date: 04 March 1940

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Sectional Committee: Physics

Requests for copies of the paper for use by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (UK). Encloses list of three Directors of Scientific Departments who should be consulted if they would also like copies: Herbert John Gough, Ministry of Supply; David Randall Pye, Air Ministry; Charles Seymour Wright, Scientific Research and Experiment Department , Admiralty.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London']

Endorsed on recto as received 5 March 1940.

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RR/66/172
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04 March 1940
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Letter on paper
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2 pages
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Typescript

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Edward Victor Appleton, Second letter from Edward Victor Appleton, to John David Griffith Davies, regarding a paper 'Supersonic dispersion in gases II. Air containing water vapour' by M Mokhtar and E G Richardson, 04 March 1940, RR/66/172, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_66_172/second-letter-from-edward-victor-appleton-to-john-david-griffith-davies-regarding-a-paper-supersonic-dispersion-in-gases-ii-air-containing-water-vapour-by-m-mokhtar-and-e-g-richardson, accessed on 15 October 2024

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