author
Charles B. (Charles Brian) Hayward
b. 1876
An early 20th-century engineering writer, he helped make new technologies like automobiles, wireless telegraphy, and flight understandable to general readers and students. His books capture the excitement of an era when aviation was still new and rapidly changing.
2 Audiobooks
Dirigible Balloons
by Charles B. (Charles Brian) Hayward
Building and Flying an Aeroplane A practical handbook covering the design, construction, and operation of aeroplanes and gliders
by Charles B. (Charles Brian) Hayward
About the author
Charles B. Hayward, also listed as Charles Brian Hayward, was an American technical author born in 1876. He wrote practical books on automobiles, wireless telegraphy, and especially aeronautics, including Practical Aeronautics, Building and Flying an Aeroplane, and Dirigible Balloons.
Contemporary book records describe him as an engineer and editor with close ties to professional societies and technical publishing. Sources connected him with The Automobile, identified him as a former secretary of the Society of Automobile Engineers, and described him as a member of The Aeronautical Society and president and general manager of The Stirling Press in New York City.
His work stands out for its clear, instructional style. Rather than writing abstract theory, he focused on explaining how machines worked and how new transportation technologies could be understood in practical terms, which makes his books a vivid window into the pioneering age of motoring and flight.