Who invented the ouncing bomb that blew up the moher dam?
Sir Barnes Neville Wallis, CBE, FRS, RDI, commonly known as Barnes Wallis, (September 26, 1887 – October 30, 1979) was an English scientist, engineer and inventor. He is best known for inventing the bouncing bomb used by the RAF in Operation Chastise (the Dambusters Raid) to attack the Möhne and Eder dams in the Ruhr area in May 1943, during the Second World War. The bouncing bomb was a variety of depth charge style of bomb designed by Barnes Wallis of Vickers-Armstrong at Brooklands, Surrey. It was used in the famous Dambusters raid to attack major dams in Germany’s industrial Ruhr Valley during World War II. Barnes Wallis first began to think of producing a bouncing bomb in 1941. He was aware that in the nineteenth century the Royal Navy had observed that cannonballs sometimes bounced on water which increased their range. Initially his work on the device was to attack battleships. The bomb could be released away from the ships; the bomb would skip over anti-torpedo defences, and when
