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During tests with an experimental high-speed camera developed at the National Research Laboratories1, the photographs reproduced herewith (Fig. 1) were taken of a shock wave travelling through glass. The pictures indicate that the wave must travel through the glass at a speed of more than 18,500 ft. per sec.
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Baird, K. M., Canad. J. Res., A, 24, 41 (1946).
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BAIRD, K. Shock Wave in Glass. Nature 160, 24–25 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160024b0
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