Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834-1906) va ser un astrònom, inventor del bolòmetre i un pioner de l'aviació estatunidenc.
El 1867, va esdevenir director de l'observatori Allegheny i professor d'astronomia la Western University of Pennsylvania.American Antiquarian Society Members Directory
Aviació miniatura|upright|Aërodrome No. 5 en vol,6 de maig de 1896. Foto per Alexander Graham Bell
Langley intentà fer aparells d'aviació més pesants que l'aire. Els seus models volaren però els seus dos intents de volar pilotats fracassaren.
Llegat Langley Gold Medal per la Smithsonian Institution NASA Langley Research Center (NASA LaRC), Hampton, Virginia Langley Air Force Base Langley Hall at the University of Pittsburgh Langley High School in Pittsburgh Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory Langley unit of solar radiation Mount Langley in the Sierra Nevada
, laid down 10 July 1942 and renamed Hammann on 1 August 1942
Seadrome Langley, intended as one in a chain of Atlantic aviation way-stations, cancelled due to the Depression , U.S. Liberty Ship Samuel P. Langley Elementary School in Washington, DC.
Referències
Bibliografia A Dream of Wings: Americans and the Airplane, 1875-1905, by Dr. Tom D. Crouch, W. W. Norton, 1981 Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age, from Antiquity through the First World War, by Dr. Richard P. Hallion, Oxford University Press, 2003 Wilbur and Orville: A Biography of the Wright Brothers, by Fred Howard, Dover, 1987 A Heritage of Wings, An Illustrated History of Naval Aviation, by Richard C. Knott, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, 1997 Winged Shield, Winged Sword: 1907-1950: A History of the United States Air Force, by Bernard C. Nalty, University Press of the Pacific, 2003 Aviation, The Pioneer Years, edited by Ben Mackworth-Praed, Studio Editions, Ltd., London, 1990 To Conquer The Air—The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight, by James Tobin, Free Press, division of Simon & Schuster, 2003 "Vita ed opere dell'astronomo e costruttore aeronautico Samuel Pierpont Langley", by Giuseppe Ciampaglia. Rivista Storica; Gennaio 1996. Selling the True Time: nineteenth-century timekeeping in America, by Ian R. Bartky, Stanford University Press, 2000
Enllaços externs
Finding Aid to Samuel P. Langley's Papers at the Smithsonian Institution Archives Allegheny Observatory – "UNDAUNTED: The Forgotten Giants of the Allegheny Observatory?" National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir
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