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Letter to William Payman, regarding a paper 'Explosion waves and shock waves VI. The disturbance produced by bursting diaphragms with compressed air' by William Payman and Wilfred Charles Furness Shepherd

Reference number: RR/66/309

Date: 03 July 1946

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Sectional Committee: Physics

The paper, once regarded as confidential, is soon to be published in the Proceedings. If he requires author's copies, please correspond directly with Cambridge University Press.

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

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RR/66/309
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03 July 1946
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Letter to William Payman, regarding a paper 'Explosion waves and shock waves VI. The disturbance produced by bursting diaphragms with compressed air' by William Payman and Wilfred Charles Furness Shepherd, 03 July 1946, RR/66/309, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_66_309/letter-to-william-payman-regarding-a-paper-explosion-waves-and-shock-waves-vi-the-disturbance-produced-by-bursting-diaphragms-with-compressed-air-by-william-payman-and-wilfred-charles-furness-shepherd, accessed on 11 February 2026

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