Part one of term paper
Many people have flown in an airplane or are going to at some point in their lifetime, but most people do not know how the airplane came about or about aviation history at all. Samuel P. Langley played a very big part in the history of aviation. Although Langley was not always into aviation, he gained interest in it in the latter part of hi ...

Part two of term paper
... of flight powered by steam engines. Langley called his airplanes "Aerodromes". Samuel P. Langley was born on August 22, 1834, in Roxburry, Massachusetts. Langley was an American astronomer, physicist, and aeronautics fanatic who helped with solar phenomena related to meteorology. Langley practiced civil engineering and architecture in Chicago, Illinois and St. Louis, Missouri. After this, he went back to Boston and received an assistantship at the Harvard Observatory. He later went on to teac ...