Samuel Pierpont Langley
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 118 years ago |
| Date of birth | August 22,1834 |
| Zodiac sign | Leo |
| Born | Roxbury |
| Boston | |
| Massachusetts | |
| United States | |
| Date of died | February 27,1906 |
| Died | Aiken |
| South Carolina | |
| United States | |
| Known for | Solar physics |
| Parents | Mary Sumner Williams |
| Job | Inventor |
| Physicist | |
| Astronomer | |
| Rocket scientist | |
| Education | The English High School |
| Boston Latin School | |
| Boston High School | |
| Boston Latin School (BLS) | |
| Awards | Henry Draper Medal |
| Rumford Prize | |
| John Scott Legacy Medal and Premium | |
| Rumford Medal | |
| Janssen Medal | |
| Siblings | John W. Langley |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 509508 |
The new astronomy
Experiments in Aerodynamics
Langley Memoir on Mechanical Flight
The Internal Work of the Wind
Experiments in Aerodynamics, Volume 27
Memoir of George Brown Goode, 1851-1896
Researches on Solar Heat and Its Absorption by the Earth's Atmosphere: A Report of the Mount Whitney Expedition
The Internal Work of the Wind, Volume 27, Issue 2
The Life and Services of John James Audubon: An Address Before the the [sic] New York Academy of Sciences, April 26, 1893
On the Cheapest Form of Light: From Studies at the Allegheny Observatory
The Removal of the Remains of James Smithson
A Method of Avoiding Personal Equation in Transit Observations
James Smithson
The Edge of the Future: Popular Science Writing at the Rise of the Twentieth Century
Experiments in Aerodynamics - Scholar's Choice Edition
The bolometer
Experiments in Aerodynamics
Langley Memoir on Mechanical Flight
The Internal Work of the Wind
Experiments in Aerodynamics, Volume 27
Memoir of George Brown Goode, 1851-1896
Researches on Solar Heat and Its Absorption by the Earth's Atmosphere: A Report of the Mount Whitney Expedition
The Internal Work of the Wind, Volume 27, Issue 2
The Life and Services of John James Audubon: An Address Before the the [sic] New York Academy of Sciences, April 26, 1893
On the Cheapest Form of Light: From Studies at the Allegheny Observatory
The Removal of the Remains of James Smithson
A Method of Avoiding Personal Equation in Transit Observations
James Smithson
The Edge of the Future: Popular Science Writing at the Rise of the Twentieth Century
Experiments in Aerodynamics - Scholar's Choice Edition
The bolometer
Samuel Pierpont Langley Life story
Samuel Pierpont Langley was as an American aviation pioneer, astronomer and physicist who invented the bolometer. He was the third secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and a professor of astronomy at the University of Pittsburgh, where he was the director of the Allegheny Observatory.
Samuel Pierpont Langley Photos
