Early flying machines, 1799-1909

by Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith

150 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1975

About the author

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

Source: Wikipedia

Reviews

[John Kaye · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not the world's longest book, but full of great pictures and drawings of the earliest attempts at flight. Amazing to think that they went from this skeletal efforts to aerial combat five years later.