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Langley   /lˈæŋli/  /lˈæŋgli/   Listen
Langley

noun
1.
Unit of solar radiation.
2.
United States astronomer and aviation pioneer who invented the bolometer and contributed to the design of early aircraft (1834-1906).  Synonym: Samuel Pierpoint Langley.





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"Langley" Quotes from Famous Books



... have been the contributions made by Samuel Pierpont Langley, perhaps the greatest authority on the sun alive to-day. He showed a decided fondness for astronomy even as a boy, and at the age of thirty was assistant in the observatory at Harvard. Two years later, he was invited to fill the chair of astronomy in the Western ...
— American Men of Mind • Burton E. Stevenson


Words linked to "Langley" :   artificer, astronomer, unit of measurement, discoverer, uranologist, unit, Samuel Pierpoint Langley, stargazer, inventor


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