J. W. Dunne

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John William Dunne
Born	2 December 1875[1] Curragh Camp, County Kildare, Ireland
Died	24 August 1949 (aged 73) Banbury, England
Occupation(s)	Soldier Aeronaut Philosopher
Spouse	Hon. Cicely Marion Violet Joan Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes
Children	John Geoffrey Christopher Dunne Rosemary Elizabeth Cecily Dunne
Parent(s)	General Sir John Hart Dunne Julia Elizabeth Dunne

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 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.