Samuel Pierpont Langley
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| Naixement | 22 agost 1834 Roxbury |
| Mort | 27 febrer 1906 (71 anys) Aiken |
| Grup ètnic | Estatunidencs |
| Educació | The English High School  Boston High School |
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| Camp de treball | Astronomia |
| Ocupació | Astrònom, enginyer aeronàutic, astrofísic, físic, enginyer, inventor i enginyer aeroespacial |
| Ocupador | Universitat Harvard University of Pittsburgh Observatori d'Allegheny Acadèmia Naval dels Estats Units Smithsonian Institution |
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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.[1]
Contingut
1 Aviació
2 Llegat
3 Referències
3.1 Notes
3.2 Bibliografia
4 Enllaços externs
Aviació
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[2]
NASA Langley Research Center (NASA LaRC), Hampton, Virginia[3]
- 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
- Plantilla:USS
Plantilla:USS, laid down 10 July 1942 and renamed Hammann on 1 August 1942- Plantilla:USS
Seadrome Langley, intended as one in a chain of Atlantic aviation way-stations, cancelled due to the Depression
Plantilla:SS, U.S. Liberty Ship
- Samuel P. Langley Elementary School in Washington, DC.
Referències
Notes
↑ American Antiquarian Society Members Directory
↑ «Awards and Medals». Smithsonian Institution. [Consulta: 14 març 2012].
↑ Tennant, Diane «What's in a name? NASA Langley Research Center». The Virginian-Pilot, 05-09-2011 [Consulta: 5 setembre 2011].
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
 | A Wikimedia Commons hi ha contingut multimèdia relatiu a: Samuel Pierpont Langley |
- Finding Aid to Samuel P. Langley's Papers at the Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Finding Aid to the Samuel P. Langley Collection at the National Air and Space Museum Archives Division
- Samuel Pierpont Langley, Flying Machines
- Samuel Pierpont Langley, Invention of the Airplane
- Centennial of Flight
- Allegheny Observatory – "UNDAUNTED: The Forgotten Giants of the Allegheny Observatory?"
- National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir
