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1868–1946 England

Frederick William Lanchester (23 October 1868 – 8 March 1946) was a British polymath, who also published poetry under the pseudonym Paul Netherton-Herries.

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Also known as: Fred Lanchester, Frederick Lanchester, Frederick William Lanchester, Paul Netherton-Herries

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The salmon may be cited as typically fish-shaped fish.

On this question of armour it cannot be too strongly insisted that anything less than the thickness necessary definitely to stop the projectile is worse than useless; a "mushroomed" bullet, possibly accompanied by a few detached fragments of steel, is infinitely more disagreeable and dangerous than a bullet which has not been upset.

Aircraft in Warfare (1916)

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