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
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
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
USS Langley (CV-1)
…converted in 1920 from the collier USS Jupiter (Navy Fleet Collier No. 3), and also the US Navy's first turbine-electric ship. Langley was named after Samuel Langley, an American aviation pioneer. She was the sole member of her class to be rebuilt as a carrier. Conversion of another collier was planned but canceled…
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