Talk:Stephen Smith (aerospace engineer)

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How do you know? How do you know? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.165.176.10 (talk) 08:29, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

You can't go around using phrases such as "He was the most innovative of the early rocket pioneers." For one this is completely unsubstantiated. Two, this guy was working in the same era as Von Braun, Goddard, Korolev, ect.

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The result of the move request was: move the page to Stephen Smith (rocket scientist), per the discussion below. Dekimasu よ! 06:11, 12 October 2014 (UTC)

Stephen Hector Taylor-Smith → ? – Stephen H. Smith (rocket scientist) or Stephen Smith (rocket scientist)? These names may be more common; there is American sculptor of similar name. Anyway, neither this book, this journal, nor this newspaper uses the whole current title, unless it describes it as his birth name. Just to let you know, the subject was an Anglo-Indian. George Ho (talk) 09:30, 28 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Support - Either proposed title would be a closer common name than the current one according to reliable sources.--Yaksar (let's chat) 16:37, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Support - Move to Stephen Smith (rocket scientist). - Vatsan34 (talk) 16:59, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
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Few news clips covering rocket mail experiments by Stephen H. Smith
All found via newspapers.com archives. Some date discrepancy aside they can be used as citations and possibly the photograph as well. First one covers the livestock transport experiment on Rocket No. #65 "David Ezra" and another Rocket No. #66

"The First Rocket-Ship To Carry Living Passengers"


 * The San Francisco Examiner, 09 Aug 1936, Sun, Page 83

A clip with his photograph posing with one of his rockets, also mentions someone who knew him personally.


 * The Ottawa Citizen, 12 Apr 1958, Sat, Page 45

Rocket No.#127 "John Winterton" carrying mail, a snake named 'Miss Creepy' and an apple.


 * The Philadelphia Inquirer, 29 Nov 1936, Sun, Page 24

More rockets with names, "Boomerang", "Dick Turpin", "Gertrude Collins" and "Rowland Hill"


 * The Ottawa Journal, 26 May 1962, Sat, Page 73


 * The Ottawa Journal, 28 Feb 1959, Sat, Page 36

A Ship-to-Shore mail delivery demo.


 * The Mercury, 01 Nov 1934, Thu, Page 9

Another Clip mentioning rocket dispatch from main land to lighthouse on Sagar Island and delivery of relief supplies after Quetta earthquake of 1935.


 * Santa Ana Register, 08 Sep 1939, Fri, Page 18

Few others.


 * https://www.newspapers.com/clip/25660295/havanas_attempt_to_send_mail_by_rocket/


 * https://www.newspapers.com/clip/25662138/history_built_on_dreams_failures/


 * https://www.newspapers.com/clip/25689137/moment_with_morgan/


 * https://www.newspapers.com/clip/25689264/plane_facts/

Ohsin 01:29, 20 January 2019 (UTC)

"Life of Stephen H. Smith"
Found this write-up on Stephen Smith in a book titled "Stamps of India" by Jal Cooper first published in 1942. A photograph on pg. 166.


 * https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.124811/page/n167

Ohsin 19:10, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

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 * A commemorative postage stamp on ROCKET MAIL-STEPHEN SMITH.jpg

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