John William Dunne
✓ Source-basedstableBritish soldier, aeronautical engineer and philosopher (1875-1949)
John William Dunne was a British soldier, aeronautical engineer and philosopher. As a young man he fought in the Second Boer War, before becoming a pioneering aeroplane designer in the early years of the 20th century.
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Stuart Peach, Baron PeachAlso won Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society
Sydney CammAlso won Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society
Frederick W. LanchesterAlso won Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical SocietyBrian BurridgeAlso won Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society
Robert R. GilruthAlso won Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society
Alliott Verdon RoeAlso won Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical SocietyAbout this person
John William Dunne was a British soldier, aeronautical engineer and philosopher. As a young man he fought in the Second Boer War, before becoming a pioneering aeroplane designer in the early years of the 20th century. Dunne worked on automatically stable aircraft, many of which were of tailless swept wing design, to achieve the first aircraft demonstrated to be stable. He later developed a new approach to dry fly fishing before turning to speculative philosophy, where he achieved some prominence and literary influence through his "serialism" theory on the nature of time and consciousness, first set out in his 1927 book An Experiment with Time.
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