Charles B. (Charles Brian) Hayward

Charles Brian Hayward was an American engineering author born in 1876. Library and catalog records for his books show a career centered on explaining modern machinery and transportation in clear, usable terms rather than in purely academic language.

His published work covers an unusually wide spread of subjects, including Building and Flying an Aeroplane, Practical Aeronautics, Dirigible Balloons, How to Become a Wireless Operator, Wireless Telegraphy and Wireless Telephony, Gasoline Tractors, and Automobile Ignition, Starting, and Lighting. Those titles suggest a writer deeply interested in the technologies that were reshaping daily life in the 1910s and early 1920s.

Some book and library listings also describe him as an engineer and connect him with the worlds of automobiles and aeronautics. A few secondary sources give a death year of 1933, but the main detail that appears consistently across reliable catalog records is his birth year, 1876.