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Letter from John David Griffith Davies, to Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, regarding a paper 'The air wave surrounding an expanding sphere' by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor

Reference number: RR/66/289

Date: 24 January 1940

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Sectional Committee: Physics

The paper has been approved for publication, but the Woolwich authorities believe publication should be withheld until after the war.

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

No received date.

Reference number
RR/66/289
Earliest possible date
24 January 1940
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Letter on paper
Page extent
1 page
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Typescript

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Letter from John David Griffith Davies, to Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, regarding a paper 'The air wave surrounding an expanding sphere' by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, 24 January 1940, RR/66/289, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_66_289/letter-from-john-david-griffith-davies-to-geoffrey-ingram-taylor-regarding-a-paper-the-air-wave-surrounding-an-expanding-sphere-by-geoffrey-ingram-taylor, accessed on 03 December 2024

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