Having a Blast ; Proudlove On a Man Christopher and Who Loved Collecting Cannon ... How This One Is About to Sell for Pounds 25k
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INVENTOR James Close liked things that went bang. Perhaps it was his childhood memories of seeing old iron cannon sticking out of the sand on the beach - as a sevenyear-old, he lived near a Martello tower in a town on the south coast and when Napoleon threatened to invade, the defensive forts bristled with the things.
After gaining a first in engineering at Cambridge, during World War II James joined the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve as a lieutenant, then the Admiralty's top secret Directorate of Miscellaneous Weapons Development.See the full content of this document
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Having a Blast ; Proudlove On a Man Christopher and Who Loved Collecting Cannon ... How This One Is About to Sell for Pounds 25k
Nicknamed Wheezers and Dodgers, the DMWD recruits were boffins led by Commander Sir Charles Goodeve, formed to research, test and develop ideas for unconventional weapons.
James' first task was to deve...See the full content of this document
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