Tom Day Crouch (born February 28, 1944) is an American aeronautics historian and curator.
Books in order of publication:
The giant leap: a chronology of Ohio aerospace events and personalities, 1815-1969. Columbus, OH: Ohio Historical Society. 1971.
The Bishop’s boys The giant leap: a chronology of Ohio aerospace events and personalities, 1815-1969. Columbus, OH: Ohio Historical Society. 1971.
A dream of wings: Americans and the airplane, 1875-1905. New York, NY: Norton. 1981.
Blériot XI, the story of a classic aircraft. Smithsonian Institution Press for the National Air and Space Museum. 1982.
The eagle aloft: two centuries of the balloon in America. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press. 1983.
Aiming for the stars: the dreamers and doers of the space age. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press. 1999.
First flight: the Wright Brothers and the invention of the airplane. Washington, DC: Division of Publications, Harpers Ferry Center National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. 2002.
Wings: a history of aviation from kites to the space age. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press. 2003.
Rocketeers and gentlemen engineers: a history of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics– and what came before. Reston, VA: AIAA. 2006.
Lighter than air: an illustrated history of balloons and airships. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2009.
Smithson’s Gamble: The Smithsonian Institution in American Life, 1836–1906 – 2025
Oak Lawn Library Friends 