Langley Flying Machine
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Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: 1903
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 95 Box 15 Folder 9
Quarter size model of the Samuel P. Langley flying machine flying on August 8, 1903. Langley was the third Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1887-1906) and was a pioneer in the field of aerial navigation. The full size machine was an exact duplicate of this design. Unfortunately, it did not fly as successfully as the model, and the Wright brothers became the first to fly a manned machine.
Langley, S. P (Samuel Pierpont) 1834-1906
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
The original negative number is 18843, but that negative was lost.
Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 95 Box 15 Folder 9
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
1903
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2002-10629
Color: Black and White; Size: 6.5w x 8h; Type of Image: Object; Medium: Photographic print