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John William Dunne

John William Dunne FRAeS (1875–1949) 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 early military aircraft, concentrating on tailless designs to achieve an inherently stable aircraft. He later worked briefly on a new approach to dry fly fishing before turning to philosophy, where he achieved some pre-eminence through his theory on the nature of time and consciousness, which he described as "serialism".