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Samuel Pierpont Langley

1834 - 1906

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Samuel Pierpont Langley (August 22, 1834 – February 27, 1906) was an American aviation pioneer, astronomer and physicist who invented the bolometer. He was the third secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and a professor of astronomy at the University of Pittsburgh, where he was the director of the Allegheny Observatory. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Samuel Pierpont Langley is the 53rd most popular inventor (up from 189th in 2019), the 665th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,767th in 2019) and the 15th most popular American Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Samuel Pierpont Langley ranks 53 out of 426. Before him are Steve Wozniak, Karl Drais, George Westinghouse, Douglas Engelbart, Konrad Zuse, and Hiram Maxim. After him are Richard Trevithick, Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, Adam Opel, Charles Goodyear, William G. Morgan, and John Boyd Dunlop.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1834, Samuel Pierpont Langley ranks 10. Before him are Ernst Haeckel, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, John Venn, Duchess Helene in Bavaria, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, and William Morris. After him are Léon Walras, Carl Bloch, August Weismann, Amilcare Ponchielli, Jan Neruda, and Vasily Perov. Among people deceased in 1906, Samuel Pierpont Langley ranks 9. Before him are Henrik Ibsen, Christian IX of Denmark, Ludwig Boltzmann, Élie Ducommun, Archduke Otto of Austria, and Raja Ravi Varma. After him are Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, Susan B. Anthony, Georgy Gapon, Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Anton Arensky, and Alexander Kielland.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Samuel Pierpont Langley ranks 665 out of 20,380. Before him are Dave Grohl (1969), Arthur Leonard Schawlow (1921), Chuck Jones (1912), Clyde Tombaugh (1906), Bill Hewlett (1913), and George Herbert Mead (1863). After him are Tennessee Williams (1911), Angela Davis (1944), Edwin Stanton (1814), Burton Richter (1931), Harold Lloyd (1893), and William E. Moerner (1953).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Samuel Pierpont Langley ranks 15. Before him are Herman Hollerith (1860), Robert Fulton (1765), Steve Wozniak (1950), George Westinghouse (1846), Douglas Engelbart (1925), and Hiram Maxim (1840). After him are Charles Goodyear (1800), William G. Morgan (1870), Willis Carrier (1876), Theodore Maiman (1927), Isaac Singer (1811), and John Deere (1804).

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