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Letter from Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, 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 Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton

Reference number: RR/67/317

Date: 03 May 1940

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He has throught about the paper with regard to war science and has decided that there is 'just enough probability' that it will be useful to the enemy. Publication should be postponed until after the war.

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

Endorsed ob verso as received 4 May 1940.

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RR/67/317
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03 May 1940
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Letter on paper
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2 pages
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Geoffrey Ingram Taylor

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Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, Letter from Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, 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 Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton, 03 May 1940, RR/67/317, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_67_317/letter-from-geoffrey-ingram-taylor-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-alfred-charles-glyn-egerton, accessed on 18 January 2025

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