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Langley   /lˈæŋli/  /lˈæŋgli/   Listen
Langley

noun
1.
Unit of solar radiation.
2.
United States astronomer and aviation pioneer who invented the bolometer and contributed to the design of early aircraft (1834-1906).  Synonym: Samuel Pierpoint Langley.






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"Langley" Quotes from Famous Books



... Federation Senator, no less. Simon F. Langley. It's my job to keep them entertained; that's ...
— B-12's Moon Glow • Charles A. Stearns

... scheme seriously. The greatest of Americans, judged by his rank in science, Willard Gibbs, never came to Washington, and Adams never enjoyed a chance to meet him. After Gibbs, one of the most distinguished was Langley, of the Smithsonian, who was more accessible, to whom Adams had been much in the habit of turning whenever he wanted an outlet for his vast reservoirs of ignorance. Langley listened with outward patience to his disputatious ...
— The Education of Henry Adams • Henry Adams

... recess, and nearly all the girls were out, except three or four. Maud said that Carrie Wilson's mamma had been calling at Mrs. Simpson's and that she said that Mrs. Ashley told that Hattie's sister Belle was the most dowdy-looking girl at the Langley's party." ...
— Marguerite Verne • Agatha Armour

... a sort of boy of all-work at "the shop" at Hinton, where he remained, upon an accurate computation, somewhere about seven hours; they then put him with a butcher at Langley, where he staid about five hours and a-half, arriving at dusk, and escaping before midnight: then with a baker at Belford, in which good town he sojourned the (for him) unusual space of two nights and a day; and then they apprenticed ...
— Jesse Cliffe • Mary Russell Mitford

... or him. But as she went about the house there floated continually before her eyes, "Your brother, H.T.;" and the word which had been so sweet to her, which had always meant her dear old Noll, and which she had uttered so triumphantly to Percival in Langley Wood when she said "I have ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. • Various



Words linked to "Langley" :   stargazer, artificer, discoverer, uranologist, unit of measurement, inventor, unit, astronomer



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