Barnes Wallis

Sir Barnes Neville Wallis, FRS, commonly known as Barnes Wallis, (September 26 1887 – October 30 1979) was a British scientist, engineer and inventor. He is best known for inventing the bouncing bomb used by the RAF in Operation Chastise (the Dambusters Raid) to attack the M?hne and Eder dams in the Ruhr area in May 1943, during the Second World War.

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Barnes Wallis was born in Ripley, Derbyshire and educated at Christ's Hospital School in Horsham, leaving school at sixteen to start work in a shipyard. He originally trained as a marine engineer but turned his hand to airship design and then aircraft design. He worked for Vickers and its successor companies (including British Aircraft Corporation) from 1913 until his retirement in 1971.

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