Introduction. Impulses occur not only in technical work but in everyday existence. There is hammering and door banging which may cause annoyance, handclapping which denotes enthusiasm and enjoyment, motoring on rough roads which causes discomfort (especially after a good meal!), speech, electrical communication in the Morse code, and so on ad infinitum. Impulses have been treated by applied mathematicians with reference to various technical problems, e.g. Heaviside in his work on electromagnetic theory. Moreover, the subject is one which merits attention, so in what follows a brief outline will be given of recent work based upon a particular case of the Mellin inversion theorem.