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

The Langley Research Center (LaRC or NASA Langley), located in Hampton, Virginia, near the Chesapeake Bay front of Langley Air Force Base, is the oldest...

Saratoga. Langley was named after Samuel Langley, an American aviation pioneer. Following another conversion to a seaplane tender, Langley fought in World...

Smithsonian Institution Secretary Samuel Langley. The U.S. Army paid $50,000 for the project in 1898 after Langley's successful flights with small-scale...

was proposed by Franz Linke in 1942 and named after Samuel Langley (1834–1906) in 1947. One langley is 1 thermochemical calorie per square centimetre,...

develop an operating flying machine. It was written in response to Samuel Langley's failed airplane experiment two days prior. Sixty-nine days after the...

Durban, South Africa, Langley was the son of Durban High School headmaster Aubrey Samuel Langley and Dora Agnes Allison. Noel Langley attended his father's...

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

important aeronautical events. In May, Smithsonian Institution Secretary Samuel Langley successfully flew an unmanned steam-powered fixed-wing model aircraft...

Thomas (2016). "The Classics, the Cane and Rugby: The Life of Aubrey Samuel Langley and his Mission to Make Men in the High Schools of Natal, 1871-1939"...

convoy and wait for rescue. Aviation pioneer and Smithsonian Secretary Samuel Langley used a spring-operated catapult to launch his successful flying models...

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...

(TV series) The Winds of Kitty Hawk (1978) (TV movie) as Professor Samuel Langley In Search of Historic Jesus (1979) (Documentary) as Synagogue Man #1...

scale models of aircraft designs. In 1913 Eiffel was awarded the Samuel P. Langley Medal for Aerodromics by the Smithsonian Institution. In his speech...

(gilbert) Heinrich Kayser (kayser) Johann Heinrich Lambert (lambert) Samuel Langley (langley) James Clerk Maxwell (maxwell) Hans Christian Ørsted (oersted)...

device designed by Thomas Edison to measure infrared radiation. In 1878, Samuel Langley, Henry Draper, and other American scientists needed a highly sensitive...

tenanted by Borel. Samuel Ashe, a lawyer and later member of parliament, bought the Langley Burrell estate in 1657. The family built Langley House and the...

gliders under the Smithsonian's Samuel Langley's instruction. He left the Smithsonian in 1898 following disagreements with Langley. Huffaker worked with the...

The Langley Gold Medal, or Samuel P. Langley Medal for Aerodromics, is an award given by the Smithsonian Institution for outstanding contributions to the...

the Eyes of a Stranger (TV) Richard The Sound and the Silence (TV) Samuel Langley Partners 'n Love (TV) Dr. Hatch 1992–1995 Forever Knight (TV series)...

guests, including biologists Thomas Huxley and Joseph Leidy, astronomer Samuel Langley, scientist Lord Kelvin, Senators James Blaine and Justin Morrill, industrialist...

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

therefore significantly reduce cost and environmental impact.: 18  In 1891, Samuel Langley published the results of his experiments on various flat plates. At...

unlikely. Lyman Gilmore was in contact with other flight pioneers like Samuel Langley and, eventually, the Wright brothers. In 1902, Gilmore was granted two...

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

(gilbert) Heinrich Kayser (kayser) Johann Heinrich Lambert (lambert) Samuel Langley (langley) James Clerk Maxwell (maxwell) Hans Christian Ørsted (oersted)...

Michael Elliott Langley (born 1961/1962) is a United States Marine Corps general who has served as the commander of the United States Africa Command since...

displayed in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda, and depicts Leonardo da Vinci, Samuel Langley, Octave Chanute, the Wright Brothers, and their pioneering Wright Flyer...

wear goggles was probably Charles Manly in his failed attempt to fly Samuel Langley's aerodrome in 1903. In 1875, Matthew Webb attempted to use a form of...

in 1903 by Professor Samuel Langley to make it appear able to fly. After the flight demonstrations, Walcott ordered the Langley machine be restored to...