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Letter from Brigadier, Commandant, Military College of Science, to John David Griffith Davies, regarding a paper 'The air wave surrounding an expanding sphere' by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor

Reference number: RR/66/304

Date: 21 March 1940

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Sectional Committee: Physics

Requests three copies of the paper.

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

Endorsed on recto as received 28 March 1940.

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RR/66/304
Earliest possible date
21 March 1940
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
1 page
Format
Typescript

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Letter from Brigadier, Commandant, Military College of Science, to John David Griffith Davies, regarding a paper 'The air wave surrounding an expanding sphere' by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, 21 March 1940, RR/66/304, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_66_304/letter-from-brigadier-commandant-military-college-of-science-to-john-david-griffith-davies-regarding-a-paper-the-air-wave-surrounding-an-expanding-sphere-by-geoffrey-ingram-taylor, accessed on 18 February 2025

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