In the history of technology, Charles Kingsford Smith is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Charles Kingsford Smith as Australian aviator (1897-1935).
Charles Kingsford Smith was born at Hamilton in 1897. His recorded nationality is Australia. He was educated at Sydney Technical High School.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, national institutions, mass media and mass politics changed both the scale of a career and its risks.
Charles Kingsford Smith is described as aircraft pilot and flieger.
The engineer's achievement usually disappears into infrastructure, which is the point.
Formal recognition came in the shape of the Knight Bachelor.
That the work was done from Australia matters. Opportunity has never been evenly distributed, and where a person is based shapes which doors open and whose work gets seen.
Death came in 1935, at 38. By then the contribution had passed into the settled record.
Achievements
- Knight Bachelor
- Educated at Sydney Technical High School
- Worked as aircraft pilot and Flieger
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