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Communicates the paper for potential insertion in Proceedings.

Encloses summary of the paper.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1946].

Endorsed on recto as received 21 March 1940.

Reference number
RR/67/313
Earliest possible date
March 1940
Physical description
Letter on paper and two abstracts on paper
Page extent
3 pages
Format
Typescript
Manuscript

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Letter from Jocelyn Field Thorpe, on 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 to the Secretaries of the Royal Society, March 1940, RR/67/313, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_67_313/letter-from-jocelyn-field-thorpe-on-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-to-the-secretaries-of-the-royal-society, accessed on 14 January 2025

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