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Barnes Wallis
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Barnes Wallis
Sir Barnes Neville Wallis
(26 September 1887 – 30 October 1979), was an English
scientist
,
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
. 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 the
geodetic airframe
and the
earthquake bomb
.
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