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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Samuel Pierpont Langley has received more than 379,024 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Samuel Pierpont Langley is the 193rd most popular inventor (down from 188th in 2019), the 2,780th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,653rd in 2019) and the 45th most popular American Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Samuel Pierpont Langley ranks 193 out of 354. Before him are Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Charles Xavier Thomas, Lars Magnus Ericsson, Narcís Monturiol, Sandford Fleming, and Édouard Branly. After him are Philo Farnsworth, Oskar Barnack, William Murdoch, John Kemp Starley, Yuan Longping, and Hovannes Adamian.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1834, Samuel Pierpont Langley ranks 33. Before him are Kondō Isami, Lev Ivanov, Hetty Green, John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, Gustav Nachtigal, and Heinrich von Treitschke. After him are Archduchess Maria Isabella of Austria, William Chester Minor, Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner, Ewald Hering, Kamehameha IV, and José Hernández. Among people deceased in 1906, Samuel Pierpont Langley ranks 26. Before him are Eugène Carrière, Paul Drude, Prince Albert of Prussia, Jules Breton, Ernesto Cesàro, and Princess Mathilde of Bavaria. After him are Frits Thaulow, Vladimir Stasov, Princess Alexandrine of Prussia, Josephine Butler, Friedrich Konrad Beilstein, and Jean Lorrain.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Samuel Pierpont Langley ranks 2,780 out of 18,182. Before him are Carl Andre (1935), Meghan, Duchess of Sussex (1981), Daniel Boone (1734), Suzanne Collins (1962), James Remar (1953), and Heather Locklear (1961). After him are Susan Wojcicki (1968), Clair Cameron Patterson (1922), Machine Gun Kelly (1990), Philo Farnsworth (1906), Jack Johnson (1878), and Dan Quayle (1947).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Samuel Pierpont Langley ranks 45. Before him are Edwin Howard Armstrong (1890), Melvil Dewey (1851), Garrett Morgan (1877), George Pullman (1831), Royal Rife (1888), and J. Presper Eckert (1919). After him are Philo Farnsworth (1906), John Wesley Hyatt (1837), Eli Whitney (1765), Robert Cornelius (1809), Larry Sanger (1968), and Raymond Damadian (1936).

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