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Barnes Wallis, English scientist and engineer, invented the Bouncing bomb (died 1979)
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Barnes Wallis
English engineer and inventor (1887–1979)
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.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Bouncing bomb
Bomb designed to bounce to a target across water in a calculated manner to avoid obstacles
A bouncing bomb is a bomb designed to bounce to a target across water in a calculated manner to avoid obstacles such as torpedo nets, and to allow both the bomb's speed on arrival at the target and the timing of its detonation to be predetermined, in a similar fashion to a…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)