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Letter from William Payman, on his paper with Wilfred Charles Furness Shepherd 'Explosion waves and shock waves. VI. The disturbance produced by bursting diaphragms with compressed air' to J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society

Reference number: RR/67/321

Date: 04 October 1940

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He has been informed that the Royal Society are printing papers for confidential use and asks whether this would be possible for his paper. IT would be of value to the the Explosives Committee of the Ministry of Supply.

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

Endoosed on recto as received 7 October 1940.

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RR/67/321
Earliest possible date
04 October 1940
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Letter on paper
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2 pages
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Typescript

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Letter from William Payman, on his paper with Wilfred Charles Furness Shepherd 'Explosion waves and shock waves. VI. The disturbance produced by bursting diaphragms with compressed air' to J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, 04 October 1940, RR/67/321, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_67_321/letter-from-william-payman-on-his-paper-with-wilfred-charles-furness-shepherd-explosion-waves-and-shock-waves-vi-the-disturbance-produced-by-bursting-diaphragms-with-compressed-air-to-j-d-griffith-davies-assistant-secretary-of-the-royal-society, accessed on 12 January 2025

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