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This article is an orphan, as few or no other articles link to it. Please introduce links to this page from related articles; suggestions are available. (December 2009) This article may need to be wikified to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. Please help by adding relevant internal links, or by improving the article's layout. (December 2009) Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith (1909-1981) [1] was a British historian of aeronautics and aviation. Contents 1 Biography 2 Works 3 Selected publications 4 References // Biography He worked at the Victoria and Albert Museum[1] and the Science Museum in London. He was knighted.[2] Works In The Invention of the Aeroplane 1799-1909 Gibbs-Smith wrote a concise account of aeronautical developments which led slowly to functional fixed-wing airplanes. In his 1968 book on inventor Clément Ader, Gibbs-Smith investigated the disputed subject of what Ader accomplished in the 1890s and carefully (though with a dyspeptic tone) highlighted the documented evidence that Ader did not make a controlled 1897 flight, and only claimed to have done so in 1906, after Santos-Dumont and others made such claims in a way that discounted Ader's work. Prior to this, Gibbs-Smith wrote in 1960's The aeroplane: an historical survey of its origins and development about the controversy over Henri Coandă's early duct-fan aircraft, the Coandă-1910, which Coandă said was an early jet. Gibbs-Smith wrote that there was no injection of fuel ever considered for the aircraft, and countered Coandă's claims that the aircraft was an early jet by pointing out that the pilot sat in the airstream directly aft of the turbine, and that it would have been suicidal to the pilot to attain combustion of the turbine-compressed air.[3] Selected publications The Invention of the Aeroplane 1799-1909, London: Faber & Faber, 1966 Sir George Cayley's Aeronautics, 1796-1855, 1962 [4] Clément Ader - his flight claims and his place in history, London: Science Museum, 1968 The Bayeux Tapestry, London ; New York, Phaidon ; Praeger, 1973 References ^ a b http://www.information-britain.co.uk/famousbrits.php?id=1882 ^ http://invention.psychology.msstate.edu/top_level/Gibbs-Smith.html ^ Gibbs-Smith, Charles Harvard (1960). The aeroplane: an historical survey of its origins and development. H. M. Stationery Office. p. 220. http://books.google.com/books?id=mzcZAAAAIAAJ.  ^ http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/827421