Samuel Pierpont Langley
1834-1906
American aviation pioneer who first worked as an astrophysicist before becoming secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in 1887. While there, he studied solar radiat...
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Samuel Langley was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, in 1834. As a child, Langley became interested in studying the stars and, despite that fact that he never attended college, went on to become a profe...
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The American scientist Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834-1906) was a pioneer experimenter with airplanes and in the science of aeronautics.Samuel Langley was born in Roxbury, Mass., on Aug. 22, 1834. As a...
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Samuel Pierpont Langley
Samuel Langley
Samuel Pierpont Langley