While a quick online search may label Barnes Wallis merely as an engineer, this description hardly encapsulates his true impact and contributions. He was the mastermind behind some of the most ...

Sir Barnes Wallis developed the bouncing bomb using marbles in a water tub A collection of personal items belonging to the inventor of the bouncing bomb have been sold at auction. The objects, which ...

Their target was the great dams of the Ruhr Valley whose destruction, it was calculated, would cripple German war production.

A new home has been found for the bomb after the RAF used Derwent Dam to practise low-flying raids ...