Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith (1909–1981)
Auteur de The Bayeux Tapestry
A propos de l'auteur
Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith, who died in 1981, was a Research Fellow at the Science Museum, London.
Séries
Œuvres de Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith
Flight through the ages: A complete, illustrated chronology from the dreams of early history to the age of space… (1974) 28 exemplaires
Aviation: An Historical Survey from Its Origins to the End of the Second World War (1970) 19 exemplaires
Ideas: A Volume of Ideas, Living, Dying, Dead & Fossil, Which We Are Moved By or Were Moved By (1954) — Directeur de publication — 19 exemplaires
People : a volume of the good, bad, great & eccentric who illustrate the admirable diversity of man (1954) 15 exemplaires
The world's first aeroplane flights, (1903-1908) : and earlier attempts to fly (1965) 14 exemplaires
Places: a volume of travel in space and time; places which have delighted, intrigued, and intimidated men (1954) — Directeur de publication — 14 exemplaires
Things; a volume of objects devised by man's genius which are the measure of his civilization (1954) — Directeur de publication — 12 exemplaires
Sir George Cayley's Aeronautics 1796-1855. 5 exemplaires
THE NEW BOOK OF FLIGHT 3 exemplaires
World Aircraft Recognition Manual 3 exemplaires
Man Takes Wings 2 exemplaires
Copyright law concerning works of art, photographs and the written and spoken word (1970) 2 exemplaires
Balloons 1 exemplaire
The Great Exhbition of 1851, a commemorative album 1 exemplaire
German aircraft and how to know them 1 exemplaire
Escape And Be Secret 1 exemplaire
Aeronautics. (Aeronautics - 1: Flying up to 1909 1 exemplaire
Balloons and ships 1 exemplaire
Aviation 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1909-03-22
- Date de décès
- 1981-12-03
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK (birth)
- Lieu de naissance
- London, England, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- UK
USA - Études
- Westminster School, London, England, UK
Harvard University (AM|1932) - Professions
- Museum curator
public relations officer
historian of early aviation
UFO researcher - Organisations
- Victoria and Albert Museum
National Air and Space Museum - Prix et distinctions
- Honorary Companion, Royal Aeronautical Society, 1962
Membres
Critiques
Aviation: An Historical Survey from Its Origin to… par Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith
https://airminded.org/2023/04/11/the-year-of-reading-airmindedly-iv/
the substance of this booklet was delivered by the Author as a Discourse to the Royal Institution of Great Britain.
Republished by the Science Museum to mark the centenary of the Wright brothers' pioneering flights on 17 December 1903, this classic account provides an introduction to their remarkable careers and their unique place in aviation history.
The Wrights were arguably the first to make powered, sustained and controlled flights, near Kitty Hawk, NC; the aeroplane, the first Flyer, was of their own design and construction and had been developed over a period of three years. It was loaned to the Science Museum, London, from 1928 to 1948, and is now displayed in the National Air and Space Museum (Smithsonian Institution) in Washington DC, a reproduction remaining in London.… (plus d'informations)
Republished by the Science Museum to mark the centenary of the Wright brothers' pioneering flights on 17 December 1903, this classic account provides an introduction to their remarkable careers and their unique place in aviation history.
The Wrights were arguably the first to make powered, sustained and controlled flights, near Kitty Hawk, NC; the aeroplane, the first Flyer, was of their own design and construction and had been developed over a period of three years. It was loaned to the Science Museum, London, from 1928 to 1948, and is now displayed in the National Air and Space Museum (Smithsonian Institution) in Washington DC, a reproduction remaining in London.… (plus d'informations)
Great table at back of book, showing airborne duration times for powered aeroplanes between 1903 and 1908. It includes one on October 14th 1906, at Issy, duration, three fifths of a second, distance 6 metres. Reading the book, I realise that the early days of flying in a powered, sustained and controlled way were not that long ago. The first Orvill and Wilbur Wright of this kind was in December 1903 and the first passenger flight of over one hour, piloted by Wilbur Wright, was in October 1908.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 40
- Membres
- 452
- Popularité
- #54,272
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 8
- ISBN
- 35
- Langues
- 6