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3 days ago · Samuel Pierpont Langley was America’s leading contender to become the inventor of the first successful heavier-than-air flying machine. A noted astronomer with an interest in aeronautics, Langley became the third Secretary of the Smithson Institution in 1887 following the death of Spencer Baird.
4 days ago · Guest speaker Paul Glenshaw, an independent filmmaker, artist and writer, said back in the late 1880s, Samuel Pierpont Langley turned the Smithsonian castle into the Defense Advanced Research...
4 days ago · Arrhenius used infrared observations of the moon – by Frank Washington Very and Samuel Pierpont Langley at the Allegheny Observatory in Pittsburgh – to calculate how much of infrared (heat) radiation is captured by CO 2 and water (H 2 O) vapour in Earth’s atmosphere. Using ‘Stefan’s law’ (better known as the Stefan–Boltzmann law ...
2 days ago · (1) By his will, proved at Northampton 15 July 1732, Samuel Langley gave an annual sum of £1 out of his lands for the benefit of the minister. This charge is paid out of land in Nether Field now the property of the Kettering Industrial Co-operative Society, Ltd.
2 days ago · Charles Sanders Peirce (/ p ɜːr s / [8] [9] PURSS; September 10, 1839 – April 19, 1914) was an American scientist, mathematician, logician, and philosopher who is sometimes known as "the father of pragmatism".
2 days ago · Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), [1] known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," [2] with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature."
4 days ago · Another offshoot of the carbon experiments reached fruition sooner. Samuel Langley, Henry Draper, and other American scientists needed a highly sensitive instrument that could be used to measure minute temperature changes in heat emitted from the Sun’s corona during a solar eclipse along the Rocky Mountains on July 29, 1878.
