Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834-1906) va ser un astrònom, inventor del bolòmetre i un pioner de l'aviació estatunidenc.
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El 1867, va esdevenir director de l'observatori Allegheny i professor d'astronomia la Western University of Pennsylvania.[1]
Aërodrome No. 5 en vol,6 de maig de 1896. Foto per Alexander Graham Bell
Langley intentà fer aparells d'aviació més pesants que l'aire. Els seus models volaren però els seus dos intents de volar pilotats fracassaren.
- Langley Gold Medal per la Smithsonian Institution[2]
- NASA Langley Research Center (NASA LaRC), Hampton, Virginia[3]
- Langley Air Force Base
- Langley Hall at the University of Pittsburgh
- Langley High School in Pittsburgh
- Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory
- Langley unit of solar radiation
- Mount Langley in the Sierra Nevada
- USS Langley (CV-1)
- USS Langley (DE‑131), laid down 10 July 1942 and renamed Hammann on 1 August 1942
- USS Langley (CVL-27)
- Seadrome Langley, intended as one in a chain of Atlantic aviation way-stations, cancelled due to the Depression
- SS Samuel P. Langley, U.S. Liberty Ship
- Samuel P. Langley Elementary School in Washington, DC.
- A Dream of Wings: Americans and the Airplane, 1875-1905, by Dr. Tom D. Crouch, W. W. Norton, 1981
- Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age, from Antiquity through the First World War, by Dr. Richard P. Hallion, Oxford University Press, 2003
- Wilbur and Orville: A Biography of the Wright Brothers, by Fred Howard, Dover, 1987
- A Heritage of Wings, An Illustrated History of Naval Aviation, by Richard C. Knott, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, 1997
- Winged Shield, Winged Sword: 1907-1950: A History of the United States Air Force, by Bernard C. Nalty, University Press of the Pacific, 2003
- Aviation, The Pioneer Years, edited by Ben Mackworth-Praed, Studio Editions, Ltd., London, 1990
- To Conquer The Air—The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight, by James Tobin, Free Press, division of Simon & Schuster, 2003
- "Vita ed opere dell'astronomo e costruttore aeronautico Samuel Pierpont Langley", by Giuseppe Ciampaglia. Rivista Storica; Gennaio 1996.
- Selling the True Time: nineteenth-century timekeeping in America, by Ian R. Bartky, Stanford University Press, 2000
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