Charles Gibbs-Smith

Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith (✰ Londres,^[1] 22 de março de 1909;  ✝ Local desconhecido, 03 de dezembro de 1981^[2]) foi um polímata e historiador de aeronáutica e aviação britânico.^[3]

O seu obituário no The Times o descreve como: "uma autoridade reconhecida no início do desenvolvimento do voo na Europa a na América"^[4] Richard P. Hallion o chamou de: "O maior de todos os historiadores do início da aviação".^[5]

Obra

Lista parcial

• The Aircraft Recognition Manual (1944) – formerly Basic Aircraft Recognition
• The Great Exhibition of 1851 (1951). London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office
• The Wright Brothers: A Brief Account of their Work, 1899–1911 (1963). London.
• Sir George Cayley's Aeronautics, 1796–1855 (1962)^[6]
• The Invention of the Aeroplane 1799–1909 (1966), London: Faber & Faber.
• A Directory and Nomenclature of the First Aeroplanes 1809 to 1909 (1966). London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office
• Clément Ader – his flight claims and his place in history (1968), London: Science Museum
• Aviation: an historical survey from its origins to the end of World War II (1970; 2nd ed 1985)
• The Bayeux Tapestry (1973), London ; New York, Phaidon ; Praeger
• The Rebirth of European Aviation 1902–1908 (1974). London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office.

Referências

1. Chambers Biographical Dictionary. [S.l.]: Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. 2007. Consultado em 26 de maio de 2011 Hosted by Credo Reference.
2. Charles Gibbs-Smith at Information Britain web site
3. «Obituary of John Harthan». V&A People. Victoria and Albert Museum. Fevereiro de 2002. Consultado em 26 de maio de 2011
4. «Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith». Staff Obituaries. Victoria and Albert Museum. Consultado em 26 de setembro de 2010. Reproduced with kind permission of The Times ©Times Newspapers Limited
5. Hallion, Richard (2003). Taking flight: inventing the aerial age from antiquity through the First World War. [S.l.]: Oxford University Press US. p. 446. ISBN 0-19-516035-5
6. Sir George Cayley's aeronautics, 1796-1855 / by Charles H. Gibbs-Smith

Ligações externas

• List of written works at LibraryThing.com
• Review of The Rebirth of European Aviation in Flight International, 15 May 1975 p.806
• Review of The Aeroplane, and historical survey Flight 1960
• Gibbs-Smith on Cayley
• "Hops and Flights, a roll call of early powered take-offs" Flight April 1959
• Television interview with Gibbs-Smith on the subject of UFOs

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