LANGLEY, SAMUEL PIERPONT

(1834-1906), airship pioneer and omer; 6. Roxbury, Ma .; d. Aiken, He was a graduate of the Boston School and engaged in architecture civil engineering, after studying Europe. For many years he the science of astronomy, first as tant at the Harvard Observatory, as director of the Allegheny Observatory. He added materially to existing edge of solar heat by his solar tions on Pike’s Peak, Mount Etna Mount Whitney, Cal. 1878-9, the bolometer, a delicate device measuring radiant heat, and established the Astrophysical Observatory at ington. After 1887 he was Secretary the Smithsonian Institution and in year served as president of the American ‘A ociation for the Advancement Science. He gave the closest study the problem of air navigation the Wright brothers made their,aeroplanes known. The result Sustained flight in 1896 by a, driven aeroplane of his design and struct i on, and a further machine \which experiments were made in for Congre helped him to pursue his experiments in devising a practical va machine, with an appropriation of His $5,000, but his efforts flagged through criticism and discouragement, and he Blay abandoned his quest. Later the Wright exploits in the air arrested public attention and overshadowed Langley’s pioPiers neering work. His device of 1903 was shown to have been built on sound pieced working principles by Glenn Curti , facts: who made a succe ful flight in it ab monasHammondsport, N.Y., by means or a powerful modern engine. Oxford, Camby bridge, Harvard, Princeton, Yale and other universities conferred honorary all ego ride grees upon him and he was awarded of medals for his services to science by the earnest, Institute of France, the Royal Society Church of London and the U.S. National Acadof emy of Sciences. He wrote The New reAstronomy; Experiments in AeroDynam= ics; and Internal Work of the Wind. metre town, N. Spain. Pop. 19,000. e (1849), fortified town, E. France; episcopal see; inXiIl.-cent. cathedral; Rom. gateway remains. Pop. 9900. durEng. ecclesiastic; studied at Paris, sucelected abp. of Canterbury by Canter the’ bury monks, 1207, joined with barons fighting, against King John, but it is doubtful in spec how far he was responsible for Magna Carta; after John’s death supported Henry If. S.C. BATHE (1852), Eng. actre , dau. of Latin Rev. W. C. le Breton, Dean of Jersey, and hence known as the ‘Jersey Lily’; in married Edward Langtry, 1874; society pursued beauty; made her début at Hay market a is Theatre, London, as Blanche Haye in then Ours, 1881; has also played Kate Hard castle in She Stoops to Conquer, and knowlRosalind in As You Like It, etc. In observa1908 she appeared at the Hay market as and Mrs. Arundel in A Fearful Joy; became invented naturalized in.S. 1887; married for Gerald de Bathe, 1897, who succeeded to the family baronetcy in 1907. Wash-