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Letter from George Frederick Temple, on a paper 'The hodograph transformation in trans-sonic flow. I. Symmetrical channels' by Michael James Lighthill to J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society

Reference number: RR/69/206

Date: 10 December 1946

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Apologises for being 'pernickety' but although he accepts the alterations proposed by the author, there is still one point that he doesn't agree with. The point made is false and should be modified.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1947

Endorsed on recot as received 13 December 1946.].

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RR/69/206
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10 December 1946
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Letter on paper
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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George Frederick James Temple

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George Frederick James Temple, Letter from George Frederick Temple, on a paper 'The hodograph transformation in trans-sonic flow. I. Symmetrical channels' by Michael James Lighthill to J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, 10 December 1946, RR/69/206, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_69_206/letter-from-george-frederick-temple-on-a-paper-the-hodograph-transformation-in-trans-sonic-flow-i-symmetrical-channels-by-michael-james-lighthill-to-j-d-griffith-davies-assistant-secretary-of-the-royal-society, accessed on 20 January 2025

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