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]
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- 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
- ↑ Chambers Biographical Dictionary. [S.l.]: Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. 2007. Consultado em 26 de maio de 2011 Hosted by Credo Reference.
- ↑ Charles Gibbs-Smith at Information Britain web site
- ↑ «Obituary of John Harthan». V&A People. Victoria and Albert Museum. Fevereiro de 2002. Consultado em 26 de maio de 2011
- ↑ «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
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Sir George Cayley's aeronautics, 1796-1855 / by Charles H. Gibbs-Smith
Ligações externas[editar | editar código-fonte]
- 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
