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Samuel Langley

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Samuel Langley

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Also known as Samuel Pierpont Langley

American physicist, pioneer of aviation, and 3rd Secretary of the Smithsonian (1834-1906)

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Samuel Pierpont Langley was born on August 22, 1834, and died on February 27, 1906. He is recognized in the Royal Society collection and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.

A separate entry for an author named Samuel Langley-Swain lists nineteen works, including *Daisy and Dandelion*, *What Wesley Wore*, *Santa's Wish*, *Where Björn Belongs*, and *The Blanket Bears*. Crossref data indicates five works associated with this name. Additionally, a MusicBrainz entry for a person named Samuel Langley identifies the artist as female, from Montgomery, and associated with the country genre.

Synthesized by Vinony from 15 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
19

Top works

  • Daisy and Dandelion
  • What Wesley Wore
  • Santa's Wish
  • Where Björn Belongs
  • The Blanket Bears

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
Montgomery
Active from
1999-05-03
country

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Key facts

Preceded by
Spencer Fullerton Baird
Succeeded by
Charles Doolittle Walcott
Born
( 1834-08-22 ) August 22, 1834, Roxbury, Massachusetts , U.S.
Died
February 27, 1906 (1906-02-27) (aged 71), Aiken, South Carolina , U.S.
Known for
solar physics aviation experiments
Awards
Rumford Medal (1886) , Henry Draper Medal (1886) , Janssen Medal (1893)

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

Samuel Pierpont Langley (August 22, 1834 – February 27, 1906) 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 the University of Pittsburgh, where he was the director of the Allegheny Observatory.

Life

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Samuel Langley” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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