John William Dunne FRAeS (2 December 1875 – 24 August 1949) was a British soldier, aeronautical engineer and philosopher. As a young man he fought in...
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Tailless aircraft (section J. W. Dunne)
designer to achieve this, the first being developed by the pioneer aviator J. W. Dunne. Sweeping the wing leading edge back, either as a swept wing or delta...
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An Experiment with Time (category J. W. Dunne)
a book by the British soldier, aeronautical engineer and philosopher J. W. Dunne (1875–1949) about his precognitive dreams and a theory of time which...
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The Dunne D.8 of 1912 was a tailless swept wing biplane, designed by J. W. Dunne to have inherent stability. One example was supplied to RAE Farnborough...
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answer without ever having heard the question. In the early 20th century J. W. Dunne, a British soldier and aeronautics engineer, experienced several dreams...
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general relativity proposed by Max Planck and Albert Einstein. In 1927 J. W. Dunne wrote an influential book proposing a theory that time could flow differently...
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Jasmine Dunne (born 1973) J. W. Dunne (1875–1949), Irish born Aeronautical Inventor and philosopher, son of Irish born Sir John Hart Dunne Jeff Dunne (1956–2020)...
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The Dunne D.5 was a British experimental aircraft built in 1910. A tailless swept-wing biplane, it was designed by J. W. Dunne and built by Short Brothers...
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of time, J. W. Dunne proposed an infinite hierarchy of time dimensions, inhabited by a similar hierarchy of levels of consciousness. Dunne suggested...
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for Salmon and Sea Trout", in Hunter (1926). Dunne, J. W.; The Fly on the Water, in Hunter (1926). Dunne (1924) Monahan, Philip. "A Mending primer". Archived...
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featured in the film Hard Grit J. W. Dunne (1875–1949), British soldier, aeronautical engineer and philosopher John Gregory Dunne (1932–2003), American novelist...
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together with a swept-back wing planform. The Dunne D.5 incorporated this principle and its designer J. W. Dunne published it in 1913. The wash-out reduces...
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sculptor Ricardo Causarás. Also in 1909, British aeronautical pioneer J. W. Dunne patented his tailless stable aircraft with conical wing development....
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Richard derives his method of time travel from An Experiment with Time by J. W. Dunne, who achieved some prominence and literary influence through his "serialism"...
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possibility. Although written in 1939, using materials popularized by J. W. Dunne, the story has gained new currency in the wake of the Wheeler-Everett...
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be traced back to years prior to the First World War and the work of J. W. Dunne, which subsequently inspired various other aircraft engineers, such as...
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notion of a human "soul," a central element in much religious thought. J. W. Dunne wrote: But there can be no reasonable doubt that the idea of a soul must...
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Irene Dunne DHS (born Irene Marie Dunn; December 20, 1898 – September 4, 1990) was an American actress who appeared in films during the Golden Age of...
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up-and-coming politician. It explores the theory of serial time put forward by J W Dunne: Buchan had been reading An Experiment with Time. Buchan's novel opens...
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rebuilt as the powered D.4, which achieved short hops in 1908. Lieutenant J. W. Dunne was employed by the Army Balloon Factory at Farnborough in 1906, to develop...
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Penguin. pp. 708–709. ISBN 978-0-14-019189-9. Letter, Crowley to author J. W. Dunne, n.d., O.T.O. Archives. via Sutin, Do what thou wilt 2002 edition, p...
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Playboy of the Western World, J.K. Huysmans's novel À rebours, Einstein's theory of relativity, the works of J. W. Dunne and Cartesian dualism. The critic...
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interwar years. The first to achieve stability was British designer J. W. Dunne who was obsessed with achieving inherent stability in flight. He successfully...
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List of aerospace engineers (section W)
Dumont (1873–1932) – inventor of the dirigible; aeronautics pioneer J. W. Dunne (1875–1949) – invented the first delta wing Pedro Duque (born 1963) –...
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using "pedrails" from an inventor J. W. Dunne, who spoke of "big fat pedrail machines" in a letter to Wells. Dunne later also influenced Wells's novel...
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List of non-fiction writers (section W)
Elaine Dundy (1921–2008, US, Bg/J) Binnie Dunlop (1874–1946, Scotland, M) John Colin Dunlop (1885–1942, Scotland, H) J. W. Dunne (1875–1949, England, N/Ph);...
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modern tale through time travel. It follows the then-popular theory of J. W. Dunne, who had suggested in his 1927 An Experiment with Time that dreams could...
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spinning. The pioneer J. W. Dunne had previously developed stable aircraft in the form of tailless swept wings and Hill took Dunne's ideas as his starting...
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Captain George Vancouver's diaries. The title refers to the theories of J. W. Dunne about the nature of time, as described by playwright Maurice Maeterlinck...
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precognition. J. W. Dunne's 1927 book An Experiment with Time studied precognitive dreams and has become a definitive classic. Parapsychologist J. B. Rhine...
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