Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith (22 March 1909 – 3 December 1981) was a British polymath historian of aeronautics and aviation

Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith (22 March 1909 – 3 December 1981) was a British polymath historian of aeronautics and aviation. His obituary in the Times described him as "the recognised authority on the early development of flying in Europe and America" Richard P. Hallion called him "The greatest of all historians of early aviation". Charles Gibbs-Smith was born in Teddington, Greater London in 1909 to a medical family which included in its line John Harvard, the founder of Harvard College.

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Charles H. Gibbs Smith Full name Charles Harvard Gibbs Smith Born . Gibbs Smith Full name Charles Harvard Gibbs Smith Born March 22, 1909 Teddington, Greater London, United Kingdom Died December 3, 1981(1981 12 03) (aged 72. a study of the Bayeux Tapestry and a centenary collection of the Great Exhibition of 1851. Gibbs-Smith's 1968 book on Ader thoroughly described the documented evidence that Ader did not make a controlled flight in 1897, and only claimed to have done so in 1906, after others had already flown.

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Gibbs-Smith's 1968 book on Ader thoroughly described the documented evidence that Ader did not make a controlled flight in 1897, and only claimed to have . The Bayeux Tapestry (1973), London ; New York, Phaidon ; Praeger. The Rebirth of European Aviation 1902–1908 (1974).

Gibbs-Smith's 1968 book on Ader thoroughly described the documented evidence that Ader did not make a controlled flight in 1897, and only claimed to have done so in 1906, after others had already flown. In his 1960's "definitive" work The Aeroplane: An Historical Survey Of Its Origins And Development, Gibbs-Smith wrote for the Science Museum about the controversy over Henri Coandă's early aircraft-the Coandă-1910-which Coandă said was the first jet aircraft. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office.

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Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith. For his second book, Sachs turns from exploration in distant territories to repose and commemoration nearby. Arcadian America- The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition revisits places that were designed specifically for mourning and remembrance- Mount Auburn Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow and the Native American burial ground are three seminal landscapes in the history of our field.