Samuel Pierpont Langley
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Samuel Pierpont Langley (August 22 1834, Roxbury, Massachusetts (near Boston) – February 27 1906, Aiken, South Carolina) was an American astronomer, physicist, inventor of the bolometer and pioneer of aviation. He graduated from Boston Latin School, was an assistant in the Harvard College Observatory, then became chair of mathematics at the United States Naval Academy. In 1867, he became the director of the Allegheny Observatory and a professor of astronomy at the Western University of...
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