Langley Aerodrome in Flight

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Object Details

Author

Unknown

Subject

Langley, S. P (Samuel Pierpont) 1834-1906

Notes

Original negative number is 21699, but that negative has been lost.

Summary

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.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 15, Folder: 9A

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

1903

Standard number

2002-10628

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Type

Photographic print

Event

Physical description

Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Event; Medium: Photographic print

Data Source

Smithsonian Archives - History Div

Topic

Aerodromics

Langley Aerodrome Tests

Secretaries

Aeronautics

Airplanes

Boats and boating

Flight

Inventions

Metadata Usage

Usage conditions apply

Record ID

siris_sic_10312