Samuel Pierpont Langley (August 22, 1834 – February 27, 1906) was an American aviation pioneer, astronomer and physicist who invented the bolometer. He...

Laboratory on Langley Field. Both Langley Field and the Langley Laboratory are named after aviation pioneer Samuel Pierpont Langley. The Aviation Section, U.S...

Portsmouth, Virginia. On 11 April 1920, she was renamed Langley in honor of Samuel Pierpont Langley, an American astronomer, physicist, aeronautics pioneer...

resistance. It was invented in 1878 by the American astronomer Samuel Pierpont Langley. A bolometer consists of an absorptive element, such as a thin...

buffer zone around the base. Langley Air Force Base, originally known as Langley Field, is named after Samuel Pierpont Langley, an aerodynamic pioneer and...

Gustave Whitehead in his No's. 21 and 22 aeroplanes (1901–1903) Samuel Pierpont Langley's Aerodrome A (1903) The Wright brothers in the Wright Flyer (1903)...

across the sky. It is named for American astronomer and physicist Samuel Pierpont Langley. It is known from Beer's law that, for every instantaneous measurement...

philanthropist Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834–1906), American astronomer, and physicist, inventor Pierpont, South Dakota Pierpont, Ohio Pierpont Township, Ashtabula...

an astronomical timekeeping service which had been developed by Samuel Pierpont Langley at the University of Pittsburgh's Allegheny Observatory (then known...

Mount Langley also has the distinction of being the southernmost fourteener in the United States. Today, the mountain is named after Samuel Pierpont Langley...

the surfaces of the Moon and other planets using a bolometer. Samuel Pierpont Langley published in 1890 a widely read paper that included Very's Moon...

Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) under a single Director. Samuel Pierpont Langley, the third Secretary of the Smithsonian, founded the Smithsonian...

Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in 1907 after the death of Samuel Pierpont Langley, holding the post until his own death. He was succeeded by Charles...

Observatory founder Samuel Pierpont Langley remained on the summit for some time, making daily observations of the solar heat. Accompanying Langley in 1881 was...

(1962). The infrared pioneers—III. Samuel Pierpoint Langley. Infrared Physics, 3 195-206. "Samuel Pierpont Langley". earthobservatory.nasa.gov. 2000-05-03...

messenger aircraft The Langley Aerodrome A, an early attempt at powered flight by Smithsonian Secretary Samuel Pierpont Langley The Northrop N-1 experimental...

1963. Langley was named for Samuel Pierpont Langley, American scientist and aviation pioneer. She carried on the name and tradition of USS Langley (CV-1)...

Smithsonian Secretary Samuel Pierpont Langley, whose 1903 tests of his Aerodrome on the Potomac were not successful. Walcott was a friend of Langley and wanted to...

Charles H. Townes, for his development of the laser. One man, Samuel Pierpont Langley, has won both the Rumford Prize and the related Rumford Medal (the...

a measurement that he made from Mont Blanc in France. In 1884, Samuel Pierpont Langley attempted to estimate the solar constant from Mount Whitney in...

American engineer. Manly helped Smithsonian Institution Secretary Samuel Pierpont Langley build The Great Aerodrome, which was intended to be a manned, powered...

almost immediately owing to its lack of flight controls. 1896: Samuel Pierpont Langley successfully flew unpiloted steam-powered models. 1897: Carl Richard...

Society of the Pacific. In 1880, Allegheny Observatory director Samuel Pierpont Langley, accompanied by Keeler and others, went on a scientific expedition...

today known as the University of Pittsburgh. The University hired Samuel Pierpont Langley to be the first director. One of the research programs initiated...

in its collection. An engine he created for pioneering aviator Samuel Pierpont Langley was heavily modified and used in a craft that has been considered...

aircraft built in the United States in 1940. Named in honour of Samuel Pierpont Langley, the aircraft was designed to make use of non-strategic materials...

Draper, in honor of her husband, and was first awarded in 1886 to Samuel Pierpont Langley "for numerous investigations of a high order of merit in solar...

people Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834–1906), scientist and early experimenter in crewed flight Scott Langley (born 1989), American golfer Thomas Langley (disambiguation)...

classes resumed in 1855. It is during this era, in 1867, that Samuel Pierpont Langley, astronomer, inventor, aviation pioneer and future Secretary of...

performance, and efficiency. Both Langley Field and the Langley Laboratory are named for aviation pioneer Samuel Pierpont Langley. Starting in 1958, when NASA...