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Sir Barnes Neville Wallis CBE FRS RDI FRAeS (26 September 1887 – 30 October 1979) was an English engineer and inventor. He is best known for inventing the bouncing bomb used by the Royal Air Force in Operation Chastise (the "Dambusters" raid) to attack the dams of the Ruhr Valley during World War II .
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Barnes Neville Wallis CBE [1] FRS (Derbyshire, 26 de setembro de 1887 — Surrey, 30 de outubro de 1979) foi um engenheiro e inventor britânico. Vida. Wallis frequentou a escola até os 17 anos e então começou sua carreira profissional na J. Samuel White, uma empresa de construção naval em Cowes, na Ilha de Wight.
15 de abr. de 2024 · Sir Barnes Wallis was a British aeronautical designer and military engineer who invented the innovative “dambuster” bombs used in World War II. Wallis trained as a marine engineer before joining the airship (dirigible) department of Vickers Ltd. in 1913 as a designer.
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Há 4 dias · Barnes Wallis was a British aviation engineer who designed the 'bouncing bomb' for the Dambusters Raid of 1943. He also worked on air attacks on dams, airships and bombers. He was knighted in 1968 and died in 1979.
17 de mai. de 2018 · Learn how the British engineer designed a bomb that could bounce on water and destroy German dams in World War II. Discover the science behind the backspin, the scale-up and the precision of the famous raid.
1 de mar. de 2006 · Barnes Neville Wallis (1887–1979) was probably Great Britain’s most distinguished 20th century aeronautical engineer, despite being largely self taught. He filed 140 GB patents alone between 1917 and 1959 which not only illustrate his own career but also throw light on the rise, glory years and later decline of the British ...
19 de mai. de 2013 · The 617 squadron, formed only two months earlier, had successfully destroyed two dams (Mohne and Eder), and damaged a third (Sorpe) using the ingenius invention of Barnes Wallis – a four tonne bouncing bomb.
