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Reference numberRR/67/317
LevelItem
TitleLetter 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
Date3 May 1940
DescriptionHe 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.
Extent2p
FormatManuscript
Physical descriptionLetter on paper
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Access statusOpen
Related materialDOI: 10.1098/rspa.1946.0045
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Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA8212Egerton; Sir; Alfred Charles Glyn (1886 - 1959); chemist1886 - 1959
NA6602Taylor; Sir; Geoffrey Ingram (1886 - 1975)1886 - 1975
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