'Rapid acceleration of the human body', by Mervyn O'Gorman Corrected copy of a report on the effects of acceleration and braking on the human frame. The author discusses 'a supposed useful case', the launch and retrieval of an aircraft by catapult from a ship. As an example of braking, O'Gorman writes 'I recollect being a passenger on Maxim's aeroplane at Erith...' [Sir Hiram Maxim's prototype flying machine]. 23 December 1914