The dam buster : Barnes Wallis - an engineer's life /
Morris, Richard, 1947-
The dam buster : Barnes Wallis - an engineer's life / Richard Morris. - London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2023. - 416 pages ; 24 cm.
Barnes Wallis' contribution to British aircrafts and weapons is legendary; from the R100 intercontinental airship and innovative aircrafts like the Wellesley and Wellington, to bombs that destroyed hitherto invulnerable targets, and variable-geometry aerodynes. In addition to playing a significant part in both world wars and the Cold War, his work and inventions extended to a radio-telescope, ships, bridges, prosthetic limbs, and a nuclear-powered submarine designed to travel the world's oceans in near silence. Yet little has been written about the private Wallis; the man who fell in love with his 17-year-old distant cousin-in-law when he was 34 - and thus began a love that lasted 57 years; the man who loved the British countryside and spent every spare moment rambling. Using previously unseen letters and diaries, Richard Morris brings to life one of Britain's greatest inventors.
9781474623421 (hbk.) : 25.00 1474623425 (hbk.) : 25.00
Wallis, Barnes, 1887-1979.
Aeronautical engineers--Great Britain--Biography.
Inventors--Great Britain--Biography.
Biography.
Biography.
20th century, c 1900 to c 1999.
Biography & non-fiction prose.
Biography: historical, political & military.
First World War.
TL540
920 WAL
The dam buster : Barnes Wallis - an engineer's life / Richard Morris. - London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2023. - 416 pages ; 24 cm.
Barnes Wallis' contribution to British aircrafts and weapons is legendary; from the R100 intercontinental airship and innovative aircrafts like the Wellesley and Wellington, to bombs that destroyed hitherto invulnerable targets, and variable-geometry aerodynes. In addition to playing a significant part in both world wars and the Cold War, his work and inventions extended to a radio-telescope, ships, bridges, prosthetic limbs, and a nuclear-powered submarine designed to travel the world's oceans in near silence. Yet little has been written about the private Wallis; the man who fell in love with his 17-year-old distant cousin-in-law when he was 34 - and thus began a love that lasted 57 years; the man who loved the British countryside and spent every spare moment rambling. Using previously unseen letters and diaries, Richard Morris brings to life one of Britain's greatest inventors.
9781474623421 (hbk.) : 25.00 1474623425 (hbk.) : 25.00
Wallis, Barnes, 1887-1979.
Aeronautical engineers--Great Britain--Biography.
Inventors--Great Britain--Biography.
Biography.
Biography.
20th century, c 1900 to c 1999.
Biography & non-fiction prose.
Biography: historical, political & military.
First World War.
TL540
920 WAL