Wallis Barnes (12 results)
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Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.
THE NIGHT THE DAMS BURST : REAL HEROISM, REAL ADVENTURE, REAL HISTORY
Irving, David John Cawdell, 1938- [author]; Wallis, Barnes [subject]
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Hardcover. Focal Point Classic Edition. Octavo, 144 pages. In Very Good condition. Spine is black with white print. Price unclipped: "$25.00". Boards in glossy illustrated paper. Illustrated: b&w plates (photographs). NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column P. 1393605. FP New Rockville Stock.
Airshipmen, businessmen, and politics, 1890-1940 [Smithsonian history of aviation series] [In search of the real Count Zeppelin; In the shadow of the titan : thoughts on the life & work of naval engineer Johann Schutte; Building rigid airships; Three communities & their changing fortunes; Eckener's struggle to save the airship for Germany, 1919-1929; Zeppelin intermezzos in Detroit, 1920 & 1924; The political origins of the airship Graf Zeppelin, 1924-1928; France perceives the Zeppelins, 1924-1937; Politics, personality & technology : Airships in themanipulations of Dr. Hugo Eckener & Lord Thomson, 1919-1930; F W (Willy) von Meister : Portrait of an airship businessman; Problems of helium & spy flights : the brief career of LZ 130]
Meyer, Henry Cord, 1913- ; Douglas H Robinson ; [Garland Fulton, Charles E Rosendahl, Thomas G W Settle, Scott E Peck, F W Willy von Meister, Thomas A Knowles, George H Lewis, Clarence Dutch Schildhauer, Lord Kings Norton, Barnes Wallis, George F Meager, Crispin Rope, Lotte Simon-Eckener, Heinrich Bauer, Albert Sammt, Hans von Schiller, Erich Hilligardt, German Zettel, Klaus F Pruss, Günter Baum, D W Brown, Zenon Hansen, Guy Hartcup, Robin Higham, Rolf Italiaander, Frank Kiernan, E J Morpurgo, Francisco Pfalzgraff, Francisco Lago, Jürgen Schläger, Franklin D Scott, J Gordon Vaeth, Lord Ventry, Hepburn Walker]
Language: English
Published by Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991, 1991
- Hardcover
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 273 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. ; ISBN: 1560980311 (alk. paper); 9781560980315 (alk. paper) LCCN: 90-22345 ; LC: TL657; Dewey: 387.7/325/09 ; OCLC: 22710600 ; blue cloth ; ex-lib, stamps, label ; no dustjacket ; Contents : In search of the real Count Zeppelin -- In the shadow of the titan : thoughts… on the life and work of naval engineer Johann Schütte -- Building rigid airships -- Three communities and their changing fortunes -- Eckener's struggle to save the airship for Germany, 1919-1929 -- Zeppelin intermezzos in Detroit, 1920 and 1924 -- The political origins of the airship Graf Zeppelin, 1924-1928 -- France perceives the Zeppelins, 1924-1937 -- Politics, personality and technology : Airships in the manipulations of Dr. Hugo Eckener and Lord Thomson, 1919-1930 -- F. W. (Willy) von Meister : Portrait of an airship businessman -- Problems of helium and spy flights : the brief career of LZ 130 -- Conclusion ; John Duggan is editor of the journal "Zeppelin," ; Henry Cord Meyer is Emeritus Professor of History, University of California, Irvine. ; FINE. Book.
Published by Published by Airlife Publishing Co. 101 Longden Road, Shrewsbury First Edition . 1989., 1989
- Hardcover
- First Edition
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Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original olive green cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9½'' x 7¼''. Contains [viii] 168 printed pages of text with archive monochrome photographs throughout. The Vickers Wellington was a British twin-engined, long-range medium bom…ber. It was designed during the mid-1930s at Brooklands in Weybridge, Surrey, led by Vickers-Armstrongs' chief designer Rex Pierson; a key feature of the aircraft is its geodetic airframe fuselage structure, principally designed by Barnes Wallis. Fine condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with small crease lines to the spine ends and corners, not price clipped, £14.95. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 1853100765 AEROPLANES.
Language: English
Published by Meat Research Corporation, Sydney, Australia, 1997
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 112 p. Includes: illustrations, diagrams, index. 0.0.
Language: English
Published by Unkown, UK, 1970
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Seller: WORLD WAR BOOKS, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, United KingdomWORLD WAR BOOKS
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Spiral Plastic Binding. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition Reprinted. Important proposal by Barnes Wallis, arguing that the present methods of attacking German industry are effectively thwarted by dispersal, therefore what is needed is concentrated attacks on sources of power using very large bombs. Anticipating the us…e of the Bouncing Bomb and the "Tallboy" bomb developed by the author. Originally published 1940 and as printed on cover "Copy of the Original Report Reproduced 1970". Research indicates that the Imperial War Museum hold a similar 1970 copy in this format. Clearly a very small number of these copies were printed and bound. c.150pp., including numerous diagrams and photograph. Some of the printed pages are a little faded but the whole report is fully legible. An original signature of Barnes Wallis has been neatly stuck under his name on the title page "Yours sincerely B.N.Wallis". Overall condition Very good and rare. Signed by Author(s).
Published by [Privately Printed],, 1980
- Softcover
- First Edition
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Roy. 8vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. VERY SCARCE.
More imagesPublished by (Lloyd's Register of Shipping), (London), 1926
- Softcover
- First Edition
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Condition: Very good plus. First Edition. Rare presentation copy of this paper by the renowned airship engineer and inventor of the bouncing bomb, signed "with the Author's Love to his Assistant" - his wife and longtime airship confidante Mary (Bloxham) Wallis. Though later generations know him best for inventing the "bouncing b…omb" used against German dams in World War II, in the 1920s Barnes Wallis's heart still belonged to Rigid Airships. When he was not designing them for the Airship Guarantee Company as part of the Imperial Airship Scheme (for purposes discussed in this paper), he was describing them to his beloved future wife, Mary (Molly) Bloxham, whom he met in 1922 and married in 1925. As Bloxham had just begun medical studies at University College London when they met and Wallis was twice her age, Bloxham's father wisely forbade him to write to her about anything but mathematics. Airships entered their correspondence almost immediately and offer a reliable index of both parties' moods and growing affections: "You see all my heart is in Airships," Wallis explained, and later, "I'm in a way rather depressed about Airships." Bloxham replied faithfully: "I am so sorry about the Airships, Barnes," and on better days, "Barnes, I am so awfully glad about the airships." Wallis constantly praised and encouraged Bloxham's progress in math and engineering ("you ARE most awfully brainy"), in large part because the more she learned, the more conversations they could have about airships: "I think when we have done enough trig. I shall have to start writing you a book on Airships, so that I can talk to you about them freely." Both in his private correspondence and in this paper, Wallis was firmly optimistic about the safety of airships and the advantages of hydrogen over helium: "In a modern suitably designed airship the possibility of its catching fire is so small as to be almost negligible," he explains; "we are definitely of the opinion that hydrogen is no longer a source of danger in an airship." While Wallis was designing His Majesty's Airship R100 for the Airship Guarantee Company, a sister ship, the R101, was simultaneously in development by a separate design team at the Royal Airship Works. The latter embarked on its first overseas flight in 1930 and promptly crashed and exploded. Wallis, a practical man despite his faith in airships, moved on to designing aircraft fuselage and eventually bombs, which also explode, but on purpose. A unique association copy of a rare publication in aeronautical history. 9.5'' x 7.75''. Original saddle-stapled printed wrappers. 13, [1] pages followed by 9 black-and-white airship diagrams. Inscribed by Wallis on front wrapper: "With the Authors Love / to his Assistant. / BNW." Moderate foxing to wrappers and scattered throughout.
More imagesA Tribute to Michael Faraday and Queen Victoria and Her Prime Ministers (Dam Busters)
Rollo Appleyard and Algernon Cecil (Owned by Barnes Neville Wallis)
Published by London Constable & Eyre & Spottiswoode 1931 & 1953, 1931
- First Edition
- Signed
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First editions. Books inscribed to Sir. Barnes Neville Wallis, aeronautical designer and engineer of Dam Busters fame. 'A Tribute to Michael Faraday' is inscribed: "Darling Daddy, from two of his indigent daughters, Baa-lamb and Nous-nous March 20, 1931." and additionally signed by his wife, Mary (Molly) Frances Wallis "M. F. Wa…llis" in blue, though as her daughters would have been very young I think the whole inscription is in Molly's hand. 'Queen Victoria and Her Prime Ministers is inscribed: "B. N. Wallis 26th Sept, 1953. With love from Mary & Harry.", Mary and Harry being his daughter and son in-law Mary Stopes-Roe and Harry Verdon Stopes-Roe. The books are firmly bound in lightly marked, bumped and faded cloth. The text blocks are slightly foxed and toned, both books lack the dust jackets, but Barnes Wallis has neatly cut out the portraits from the jacket of the second book and pasted them in a creative new arrangement to the front pastedown. From the estate of Mary and her husband, Harry Verdon Stopes-Roe (Marie Stopes' son).
More imagesThree books inscribed by Barnes Neville Wallis : Michael Faraday Man of Simplicity, The Bronte Story and Samuel Pepys The Saviour of the Navy
James Kendall, Margaret Lane and Arthur Bryant (signed by Barnes Neville Wallis (Dam Busters))
Published by London Faber, Heinemann and Collins 1955, 1953 & 1949, 1955
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Two first editions and a New edition. Books inscribed by Sir Barnes Neville Wallis, aeronautical designer and engineer of Dam Busters fame, to his wife Mary (Molly) Frances Wallis (formerly Bloxham). 'Michael Faraday' is inscribed "M. F. W. FROM B. N. W. CHRISTMAS 1955.", 'The Bronte Story' is inscribed: "M. F. W. from B. N. W.…23 April 1953." and 'Samuel Pepys' is inscribed: "M. F. B. FROM HER DEVOTED B. N. W. 1950 1951.". Molly Bloxham was Barnes Wallis's cousin, they married in 1925 and from the surviving correspondence and accounts of their children, had a devoted and very happy marriage. The books are firmly bound, the outer boards are slightly bumped, marked and faded, the text blocks slightly toned, foxed and dusty, Samuel Pepys has most of its dust jacket tipped onto the front endpaper below Wallis's inscription. From the estate of Mary Stopes-Roe (formerly Wallis) and her husband, Harry Verdon Stopes-Roe (Marie Stopes' son).
More imagesBARNES WALLIS PRESENTATION COPY The Royal Society Its Origins and Founders
Sir Harold Hartley (editor) E S de Beer, John Summerson [Barnes Wallis]
Published by London The Royal Society 1965, 1965
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- Signed
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First edition presented by the inventor of the Bouncing Bomb to his philosopher son in law, Harry Stopes-Roe, son of Marie Stopes. Near fine book in magenta cloth, inscribed by Barnes Wallis at the head of the first flyleaf and evidently read with some care by Stopes-Roe who has made half a page of pencilled notes on the verso o…f the final flyleaf. Also occasional pencilled marginalia, responding for example to Douglas McKie's criticism of the futility of Baconian induction 'but this was general: Johnson p192 et see index "Utility"' and later a pencilled explication of Christopher Wren's Parentalia. Provenance: from the estate of Mary Stopes Roe, Harry Stopes-Roe's wife and Barnes Wallis's second daughter who helped her father in early experiments with marbles, a catapult and a tin bath as he tried to work out how to 'bounce' a bomb across water. Barnes Wallis is best remembered for inventing the bouncing bomb which was used by the Royal Air Force in the 'Dambusters' raid to attack the dams of the Ruhr Valley during World War II. The raid was immortalised in the 1955 film The Dam Busters, in which Wallis was played by Michael Redgrave. Among Wallis's other inventions were his version of the geodetic airframe and the earthquake bomb. His election to the Royal Society in the final months of the war was in recognition of these achievements. His son in law Harry Stopes-Roe (1924-2014) was a humanist and lecturer in Science Studies at Birmingham University, explaining his interest in this history. Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item.
Published by being British Patent Number: GB37959 published: 11 August 1942, 1942
Seller: M.A. Stroh., London, United KingdomM.A. Stroh.
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Condition: no binding. London, HMSO 1963 First Edition. Original Printed patent disbound About 27cm by 18cm some wear and tear due to the disbinding.
