Papers of Sir Barnes Neville Wallis
- Made:
- 1901-01-01-1977-12-31
- maker:
- Wallis, Barnes Neville
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Copyright: BAE. Not authorised for general or commercial use. Permission given for single use by Dr Iain Murray at the University of Dundee, UK. Further enquiries to Science Museum, London| Science & Society Picture Library
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Copyright: BAE. Not authorised for general or commercial use. Permission given for single use by Dr Iain Murray at the University of Dundee, UK. Further enquiries to Science Museum, London| Science & Society Picture Library
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Copyright: BAE. Not authorised for general or commercial use. Permission given for single use by Dr Iain Murray at the University of Dundee, UK. Further enquiries to Science Museum, London| Science & Society Picture Library
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Copyright: BAE. Not authorised for general or commercial use. Permission given for single use by Dr Iain Murray at the University of Dundee, UK. Further enquiries to Science Museum, London| Science & Society Picture Library
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Copyright: BAE. Not authorised for general or commercial use. Permission given for single use by Dr Iain Murray at the University of Dundee, UK. Further enquiries to Science Museum, London| Science & Society Picture Library
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Copyright: BAE. Not authorised for general or commercial use. Permission given for single use by Dr Iain Murray at the University of Dundee, UK. Further enquiries to Science Museum, London| Science & Society Picture Library
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Copyright: BAE. Not authorised for general or commercial use. Permission given for single use by Dr Iain Murray at the University of Dundee, UK. Further enquiries to Science Museum, London| Science & Society Picture Library
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Copyright: BAE. Not authorised for general or commercial use. Permission given for single use by Dr Iain Murray at the University of Dundee, UK. Further enquiries to Science Museum, London| Science & Society Picture Library
Papers of Sir Barnes Wallis
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Photograph of Wellington aircraft with degaussing ring fitted
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Photograph of airship R23 (18L) in flight over St Paul's
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Photograph of airship construction - R100 main frame
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Photograph of Ten-Ton Tess bomb being dropped from aircraft
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Photograph of airship construction at Barrow
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Photograph of Airship R9 moored, from the Barnes Wallis Archive.
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Photograph of bouncing bomb installation in aircraft
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The fonds consists of biographical material (1901-1977) for example certificates, programmes, honours and awards, which reflect Sir Barnes Wallis' life, education and personal reminiscences. His work and research are reflected in official correspondence files and folders, minutes of meetings, reports, manuscript notes, calculations, working papers, printed material, photographs and design drawings. This material focuses on airships (1921-1929); the geodetic construction of aircraft (1930-1946); work on bombs, including dams, Highball, Card, Tallboy and big bomb developments, post war correspondence on dam raids (1939-1954); post war aircraft developments, including guided missiles, swing wing aircraft and supersonic and hypersonic flight (1944-1977); submarines (1946-1968); outside interests and consultancies, including cricket and golf balls (1936-1964), Isaac Newton and the optical telescope (1947-1955), Australian radio telescopes (1954-1963), the Central Electricity Generating Board (1962-1967), airship revival (1969-1972) and Messina Bridge (1971). The papers also include lectures, talks, participation in a British Broadcasting Company Television programme screened in 1967 covering Barnes Wallis' career and associated correspondence (1957-1972). Included is a series of patent files (1954-1968) and newspaper cuttings (1928-1978) containing, amongst others, articles about Barnes Wallis himself and his work on airships, dam busting, sinking of the battleship Tirpitz, the ten ton bomb, Swallow swing wing aircraft and Concorde.
The series of technical drawings relates to airships (20 blueprints, dyelines and tracings, 1919-1929), variable geometry aircraft the Swallow (14 tracings and hand coloured dyelines, 1957-1959), Cascade (13 tracings and hand coloured dyelines, 1959-1960), aircraft with cambered and ducted wings (16 tracings and dyeline prints, c.1960), the universal aircraft (51 tracings, dyelines, some hand coloured and dyeline prints, 1967-1971), submarines (29 tracings and dyelines, 1965-1966) and work for outside consultancies (25 dyelines and tracings, 1947-c.1970).
Photographic material in the collection comprises a series of personal and family photographs (182 black and white and colour prints and postcards, 1917-1977), technical photographs (725 black and white and colour prints, copies and postcards, 1913-1969) and 14 stereoscopic slides of the construction of the R100 in a shed at Howden, Yorkshire, 1928-1929.
The series dealing with work on bombs includes publicity and printed material relating to the Dam Busters, including printed histories, annotated film script and publicity material (1943-1972).
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18.00 metres (109 boxes and 10 large format items); 2 plan press drawers (1.44 metres per drawer)
- Identifier:
- BNW
- Access:
- Open Access
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The files were grouped in 19 series, numbered alpha-numerically, according to subject areas. Original numbering sequences where evident, were maintained in the order of the files. Where no such sequence was evident, the order was decided by the archivist.
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