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Shadow photograph of air shock waves off a 37 mm shell, at the U.S. Army Ballistic Laboratory

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Title: Shadow photograph of air shock waves off a 37 mm shell, at the U.S. Army Ballistic Laboratory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1942
1943
1944
1945
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Shadow photograph of test results, showing air stream off 37 mm shell, Ballistics Research Laboratory. Note in the hand of Edwin Powell Hubble: "Shadow photo by spark (exp. @ 1/1,000,000 second), 37 mm shell velocity about 2500ft/sec. Note shock waves in air skin friction along sides turbulence in wake." Note in the hand of Grace (Burke) Hubble: "EPH Huntington Library."
Type: image
Format: image/tiff
Extent: Black and white photograph; 21 x 23 (8.5 x 9 in.)
Identifier: HUB 1044 (19)
53366
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/232
Subject: Photography, Ballistic
Shock waves
Turbulence
Bullets
Projectiles
Motion study photography
U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory
Aberdeen Proving Ground (Md.)
Hubble, Edwin Powell, 1889-1953
Hubble, Grace Burke, d. 1980
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Motion study Photographs. (aat)
Place: Aberdeen Proving Ground (Md.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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