SAMUEL PIERPONT LANGLEY
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It is perhaps ironic that Langley had the vision of air flight while Wilber Wright, the inventor of the first airplane a few years later, saw it’s role much more limited. See: {42182}.
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Samuel Pierpont Langley was an American astronomer, physicist, inventor of the bolometer and aviation pioneer. In addition to becoming the third Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, he was also a professor of astronomy at the University of Pittsburgh, where he was the director of the Allegheny Observatory.
