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As Britain and France declared war on Germany and fighting began across Europe in September 1939, Barnes Wallis asked himself what he, as an engineer and air...
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Há 3 dias · Barnes Neville Wallis was born the son of a doctor on 26 September 1887 in Ripley, Derbyshire. Wallis worked first at a marine engineering firm and in 1913 he moved to Vickers, where he designed ...
Wallis secured his first job at Thames Engineering Works, where they made ship engines. It was here that he fell in love with ships. By 1908, Barnes decided to transfer to John Samuel White’s shipyard on the Isle of Wight. In 1913, Barnes Wallis landed a job with Vickers through his good friend Pratt with whom he had worked in Cowes.
A.R. Collins was among a large number of other people besides Barnes Wallis who made wide-ranging contributions to the development of a bouncing bomb and its method of delivery to a target, to the extent that, in a paper published in 1982, Collins himself made it evident that Wallis "did not play an all-important role in the development of this project and in particular, that very significant ...
Barnes Neville Wallis ( 26 septembre 1887 - 30 octobre 1979) est un ingénieur et inventeur britannique, principalement connu pour l'invention des bombes rebondissantes utilisées par la Royal Air Force pendant l' opération Chastise en mai 1943 .
19 de mai. de 2013 · After the war, Wallis continued his work on aircraft design (before WWII he was a pioneer of geodetic design, used to build the largest airship of its time, the R100), designing “swing wing” aircraft suited to hypersonic flight. Our Senior Keeper, Andrew Nahum, was interviewed about Barnes Wallis, his bouncing bomb and other work in 2013.
19 de mar. de 2015 · Barnes Wallis was born on 26 September 1887 in Ripley in Derbyshire but followed his family south to Horsham in Sussex, where he grew up. Aged 17 he started work at Thames Engineering Works at Blackheath in January 1905 but soon relocated to the shipyard of JS White’s at Cowes on the Isle of Wight.
