Barnes Wallis
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title:
Barnes Wallis
text:
Sir Barnes Neville Wallis was an English engineer and inventor. He is best known for inventing the bouncing bomb used by the Royal Air Force in Operation Chastise to attack the dams of the Ruhr Valley during World War II. The raid was the subject of the 1955 film The Dam Busters, in which Wallis was played by Michael Redgrave. Among his other inventions were his version of the geodetic airframe and the earthquake bomb.
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English engineer and inventor (1887–1979)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnes_Wallis
date created:
2003-03-27T00:23:43Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T22:27:19Z
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