Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Object; Medium: Photographic print
Type:
Photographic print
Object
Date:
1908
Topic:
Samuel P. Langley Memorial Tablet
Secretaries
Sculpture
Secretariats
Standard number:
82-3199
Restrictions:
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Category:
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Summary:
At the meeting of the Board of Regents on December 15, 1908, the following resolution was adopted: "Resolved, that the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution be requested to report to the Board of Regents as soon as practicable upon the erection in the Smithsonian building of a tablet to the memory of Secretary Langley, setting forth his services in connection with the subject of aerial navigation. Designs for his tablet are now being prepared by a well-known architect of this city, whose advice I have requested . . ." The document was signed by Regents Henry Cabot Lodge, A. O. Bacon, Alexander Graham Bell, and Secretary Charles D. Walcott, fourth Secretary of the Smithsonian (1907-1927). Samuel P. Langley (1834-1906) was the third Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1887-1906)
Color: Black and White; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Portrait; Medium: Photographic print
Type:
Photographic print
Topic:
Secretaries
Secretariats
Portraits
Standard number:
10611 or MAH-10611
Restrictions:
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Category:
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Summary:
Seated portrait of Samuel P. Langley, third Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1887-1906), taken when he was a young man
Color: Black and White; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Portrait; Medium: Photographic print
Type:
Photographic print
Topic:
Secretaries
Secretariats
Portraits
Standard number:
2002-12175
Restrictions:
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Category:
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes:
Original negative number is A10688, but that negative has been lost. See also Neg. #s 21105, SA-33, A10678, A10679/A38877, and A10689 for a similar photograph
Summary:
Samuel P. Langley (1834-1906), astrophysicist and third Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1887-1906). Photo shows Secretary Langley sitting in a chair. Secretary Langley was founder of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and tried to develop the first flying machine
Color: Black and White; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Portrait; Medium: Photographic print
Type:
Photographic print
Portraits
Topic:
Secretaries
Secretariats
Portraits
Standard number:
10610 or MAH-10610
Restrictions:
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Category:
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Summary:
Samuel P. Langley (1834-1906), astrophysicist and third Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1887-1906). Langley was founder of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. He conducted research in aeronautics and made great efforts to develop the first flying machine. Photo dated August 22, 1887
Color: Black and White; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Person, candid; Medium: Photographic print
Type:
Photographic print
Person, candid
Date:
1901
Topic:
Secretaries
Nova Scotia
Secretariats
Standard number:
82-3191
Restrictions:
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Category:
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes:
Presented to the Smithsonian Institution by Mrs. Marian Hubbard Bell Fairchild (Mrs. David Fairchild), daughter of Alexander Graham Bell, Nov. 1937
Summary:
Samuel P. Langley (1834-1906), third Secretary of the Smithsonian (from 1887-1906), photographed at "Benin Bhragh," the home of Alexander Graham Bell in Baddick, Nova Scotia, on September 14, 1901
Color: Black and White; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Portrait; Medium: Photographic print
Type:
Photographic print
Date:
c. 1895
Topic:
Secretaries
Secretariats
Astrophysicists
Portraits
Standard number:
2002-12174
Restrictions:
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Category:
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes:
Original negative number is A10689, but that negative has been lost. Probably taken at the same time as SA-33, A10678, A10679/A38877, and 21105
Summary:
Portrait of Samuel P. Langley, 1834-1906, astrophysicist and third Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1887-1906. Secretary Langley was founder of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and tried to develop the first flying machine
Color: Black and White; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Portrait; Medium: Photographic print
Type:
Photographic print
Date:
c. 1905
Topic:
Secretaries
Secretariats
Portraits
Standard number:
82-3220
Restrictions:
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Category:
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Summary:
Secretary Samuel P. Langley (1887-1906) seated in a Board of Regents chair. Langley was the third Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. This is one of the last photographs of Secretary Langley
Color: Black and White; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Exterior; Medium: Photographic print
Type:
Photographic print
Exterior
Place:
Rock Creek Park (Washington, D.C.)
Date:
1901
Topic:
Grounds
Secretaries
Zoos
Secretariats
Birds
Flight
Standard number:
2002-12172
Restrictions:
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Category:
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes:
Original is in the National Air Museum Photography Collection, NASM Acc. No. XXXX-0572, Glass Plate Series, NAM A-18883. Condition notes (from 2006) describe it as: 7 x 5 inch glass plate negative, soft focus (seems to be slightly blurred by movement of camera); very bad silver mirroring, especially at edges, severe fingerprints on emulsion side and glass side; scratched. Copy negative number is A18883, but that negative has been lost
Summary:
Secretary Samuel P. Langley studying and photographing birds in flight from a tower on the grounds of the National Zoological Park. Secretary Langley (third Secretary of the Smithsonian, 1887-1906), in establishing the Zoo in Rock Creek Park, had remarked on the suitability of the isolated spot for his astrophysical observatory. Although that arrangement never came to fruition, in 1901 he directed that two towers be erected in the park for flight observation experiments. During the years leading up to 1903, when Langley attempted flight with the aerodrome he designed, the Secretary was intently studying birds in flight
Color: Black and White; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Portrait; Medium: Photographic print
Type:
Photographic print
Date:
c. 1900
Topic:
Secretaries
Secretariats
Astrophysicists
Portraits
Standard number:
2002-12202
Restrictions:
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Category:
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes:
Original negative number is A10673, but that negative has been lost
Summary:
Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834-1906), astrophysicist and third Secretary of the Smithsonian, 1887-1906, in his cap and gown
Color: Black and White; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Object; Medium: Photographic print
Type:
Photographic print
Object
Date:
1908 c
Topic:
Secretaries
Secretariats
Sculpture
Memorials
Standard number:
82-3198
Restrictions:
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Category:
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes:
See also Negative #82-3199 (same SIA location) for another version of the tablet with slightly different images and writing on the base. Unfortunately, it is very difficult to read the writing on the bases of both tablets
Summary:
Memorial tablet of Secretary Samuel P. Langley (third Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1887-1906) and his contributions to aerial navigation. The tablet is not completed and is still in the artist's studio as photographs of Langley are posted nearby. Other easels are visible in the background of the image. At the meeting of the Board of Regents on December 15, 1908, the following resolution was adopted: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution be requested to report to the Board of Regents as soon as practicable upon the erection in the Institution Building of a tablet to the memory of Secretary Langley, setting forth his services in connection with the subject of aerial navigation . . . Regents Henry Cabot Lodge, A. O. Bacon, Alexander Graham Bell, and Secretary Charles D. Walcott
Panama-Pacific Exposition (1915: San Francisco, California)
Physical description:
Color: Black and White; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Exterior; Medium: Photographic print
Type:
Photographic print
Exterior
Date:
c. 1915
Topic:
Secretaries
Expositions
Secretariats
Sculpture
Memorials
Astrophysicists
Standard number:
82-3200
Restrictions:
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Category:
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes:
See Negative #'s SA-30 and 82-3201 for close-up photographs of the base of the statue (same SIA location)
Summary:
Photograph of the Samuel P. Langley commemorative statue at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, California, in 1915. The view is of the statue in the distance, including a view of the street and buildings next to it. People are seen with a street vendor in front of the buildings. Langley was the third Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1887-1906, and pioneer in astrophysics and aerial navigation. The base of the statue reads, "To commemorate science's gift of aviation to the world through Samuel Pierpont Langley, an American." The exposition was intended to illustrate the function and administrative faculty of the Government of the United States and to demonstrate the nature and growth of our institutions, their adaptation to the wants of the people and the progress of the nation in the arts of peace and war
Samuel P. Langley (1834-1906) was the third Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Apparently many of Langley's papers were accidentally burned after his death. Langley papers in the Smithsonian are housed in the Smithsonian Archives and the National Air and Space Museum (NASM). The Allegheny Observatory holds papers from Langley's years there, from which copies of Langley's correspondence, 1867-1887, have been made for this collection
Summary:
These papers document important aspects of Langley's scientific and administrative career. Most of the material documents the progress of his aeronautical research from his first flying model of 1891 through the failure of his Aerodrome A of 1903. Also, information files housed in the National Air and Space Museum Library include secondary accounts and photographs relating to Langley's aeronautical studies. Related materials in the NASM Library include the Stephen M. Balzer papers, 1898-1902, which consist of correspondence with Langley and his associate, Charles M. Manly, regarding Balzer's aerodrome engines
Dr. Peter Jakab, early flight curator and Associate Director for Collections and Curatorial Affairs at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, discusses Samuel P. Langley and his development of the ill-fated Aerodrome A. During his tenure as Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Langley conducted aeronautical experiments, building a series of gasoline- and steam-powered large model Aerodromes in the 1890s and early twentieth century, the most successful in 1896. This led him to create and test a full-sized, human-carrying airplane, the Aerodrome A, in 1903. Unfortunately, the aircraft design was flawed and test flights met with disastrous results. The Wright brothers became the first to develop and fly a successful powered airplane. Learn more about the Aerodrome A: http://airandspace.si.edu/collections/artifact.cfm?id=A19180001000
Samuel Langley (1834-1906) was an aviation pioneer and early Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. As a youth, Langley studied civil engineering and pursued this as a career until 1864, when his interest in astronomy led him to positions at the Harvard Observatory, the Naval Academy, the Western University of Pennsylvania and the Allegheny Observatory. In 1887 he became Secretary of the Smithsonian, and spent the following years in construction and tests of aircraft. On May 6, 1896, he launched his Aerodrome No. 5, which weighed 26 pounds with a span of 12.5 feet and flew nearly 3/4 of a mile powered with a 1hp steam engine. This flight surpassed by more than ten times the best efforts of any predecessor. In 1903, at the request of the Board of Ordnance and Fortification of the United States he built another aerodrome; however, the launching attempts failed. In addition to his scientific experiments, Dr. Langley's writings include "Experiments in Aerodynamics" and "The Internal Work of the Wind," and the "Langley Memoirs on Mechanical Flight," published posthumously
Summary:
This collection includes information about Langley and his colleagues, as well as evidence of Langley's work. The collection includes biographies of Langley and assistant Charles Manly, newspaper clippings, correspondence (Langley's, J.E. Watkins', and miscellaneous), manuscripts regarding Langley's planes, photographs and drawings, work requisitions for the aerodrome, a sketchbook, specifications and measurements for Langley's experiments, the "Langley Memoirs on Mechanical Flight" and the Langley "Waste Books."
Samuel P. Langley at Aeronautical Congress in Paris, France
Author:
Unknown
Subject:
Langley, S. P (Samuel Pierpont) 1834-1906
Physical description:
Color: Black and White; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Group, candid; Medium: Photographic print
Type:
Photographic print
Group, candid
Place:
Meudon (France)
Topic:
Secretaries
Secretariats
Balloons
Aeronautics
Aerodynamics
Standard number:
A450-B or A450B
Restrictions:
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Category:
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes:
See neg. #75-1755 for a different view of the same group
Summary:
Secretary Langley and group watching ascent of French Government balloons at Meudon for the Aeronautical Congress in Paris, France on September 20, 1900
Color: Cyano type; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Group, candid; Medium: Photographic print
Type:
Photographic print
Group, candid
Date:
1888
Topic:
Secretaries
Statues
Collections
Anthropology
Easter Island
Exhibitions
Asian Ethnology
Anthropology--Asian
Hall of Pacific and South Asian Ethnology
Pacific and South Asian Ethnology Exhibits
Standard number:
2002-12182
Restrictions:
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Category:
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes:
Original negative number is MNH 5793A, but that negative has been lost. A similar print is Neg. # MNH 4072. According to Ellis Yochelson in the publication 'The National Museum of Natural History' (p.97), Easter Island sculptures were acquired in 1887 and installed the following year
Summary:
Samuel P. Langley (1834-1906), third Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1887-1906), George Brown Goode (left) and Otis T. Mason (right) standing in the U.S. National Museum Building, now known as the Arts and Industries Building (A&I), beside one of the Easter Island statues
Medal, Samuel P. Langley Medal, Orville and Wilbur Wright, 1909
Manufacturer:
Medallic Art Company
Materials:
Overall - Bronze
Type:
AWARDS-Medals & Ribbons
Country of Origin:
United States of America
Credit Line:
Transferred from the Smithsonian Institution Castle
Inventory Number:
A19290008000
Rights:
Do not reproduce without permission from the Smithsonian Institution, National Air and Space Museum
Summary:
The Langley Medal was established by the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution in 1908. It is presented at irregular intervals for "specially meritorious investigations" in the field of aerospace science. The medal was named in honor of Samuel Pierpont Langley, the Third Secretary of the institution and early aeronautical experimenter.
Color: Black and white; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Object; Medium: Photographic print
Type:
Photographic print
Object
Date:
1909
Topic:
Awards and Medals
Rewards (Prizes, etc.)
Aeronautics--Awards
Standard number:
96-1371
Restrictions:
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Category:
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes:
Featured in the Torch, May 1988
Summary:
Front and back perspectives of the Samuel P. Langley Medal for Aerodromics, the third oldest medal to be awarded by the Smithsonian Institution. The Langley Medal is in honor of the Smithsonian's third Secretary, Samuel P. Langley (1887-1906) and is given to persons who have made outstanding contributions to the science of aeronautics and astronautics. The medal was authorized by the Board of Regents in 1908 and first presented to the Wright Brothers in 1909
Color: Black and White; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Object; Medium: Photographic print
Type:
Photographic print
Object
Topic:
Awards and Medals
Aeronautics
Astronautics
Aeronautics--Awards
Rewards (Prizes, etc.)
Standard number:
A23967
Restrictions:
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Category:
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes:
For more information see the OSIA Research file under "SI Awards and Medals"
Summary:
The first Samuel P. Langley Medals for Aerodromics were awarded to Wilbur and Orville Wright in 1909. One of these medals is pictured here with both the front and back of the medal shown. The Langley Medal is in honor of Secretary Langley, third Secretary of the Smithsonian (1887-1906), and pioneer in the field of aerial navigation
