Samuel Langley
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Samuel Pierpont Langley was 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
Langley, c. 1895
Langley Aerodrome No. 6 at Posvar Hall, University of Pittsburgh
Langley, right, with test pilot Charles Manly
First failure of the manned Aerodrome, Potomac River, Oct. 7, 1903
USS Langley (CV-1)
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USS Langley was the United States Navy's first aircraft carrier, converted in 1920 from the collier USS Jupiter, and also the US Navy's first turbine-electric ship. Langley was named after Samuel Lang
Samuel Langley
…Mount Langley in the Sierra Nevada USS Langley (CV-1) USS Langley (DE‑131), laid down 10 July 1942 and renamed Hammann on 1 August 1942…
USS Langley underway, 1927
Jupiter at Mare Island, 16 October 1913
Langley being converted to an aircraft carrier at Norfolk Naval Shipyard, 1921
Langley at Puget Sound Navy Yard, immediately opposite Saratoga (with black stripe on funnel) and Lexington in 1929