Results for "France"
Contagious Contributions: The Rewards of Asking for Help
- Date: February 26, 2015
- Creator: Ricc Ferrante
- Description: Update on the continuing and growing contributions of volunteers at the Smithsonian Transcription Center.
Getting Your Due, Samuel Pierpont Langley
- Date: November 28, 2017
- Creator: Ricc Ferrante
- Description: It can be so frustrating to put great effort into something, and then to have your work and achievements called into question. I can't begin to imagine how frustrated Samuel Pierpont Langley was in 1903. By that time, he had spent over forty years studying astrophysics and aerodynamics. His work on astronomically-derived time measurement in the late 1860's is the heart of the