Langley Aerodrome in Flight
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Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: 1903
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 15, Folder: 9A
Aerodrome designed by the third Smithsonian Secretary, Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834-1906), on one of its brief, unsuccessful, test flights along the Potomac River. Aerodrome is twisting and falling into the river after take-off from the boat nearby.
Langley, S. P (Samuel Pierpont) 1834-1906
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Original negative number is 21699, but that negative has been lost.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 15, Folder: 9A
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
1903
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2002-10628
Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Event; Medium: Photographic print