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Letters from the Ministry of Home Security, 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 J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of The Royal Society

Reference number: RR/67/328

Date: 23 September 1941

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The Committee is anxious to discuss the paper and requests seventy five copies.

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

Endorsed on recto as received 24 September 1941.

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RR/67/328
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23 September 1941
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Letter on paper
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1 page
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Typescript

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Letters from the Ministry of Home Security, 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 J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of The Royal Society, 23 September 1941, RR/67/328, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_67_328/letters-from-the-ministry-of-home-security-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-j-d-griffith-davies-assistant-secretary-of-the-royal-society, accessed on 18 January 2025

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