Object Details
- Author
- Unknown
- Subject
- Langley, S. P (Samuel Pierpont) 1834-1906
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Original negative number is 21699, but that negative has been lost.
- Summary
- Aerodrome designed by the third Smithsonian Secretary, Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834-1906), on one of its brief, unsuccessful, test flights along the Potomac River. Aerodrome is twisting and falling into the river after take-off from the boat nearby.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 15, Folder: 9A
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- 1903
- Standard number
- 2002-10628
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Event
- Physical description
- Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Event; Medium: Photographic print
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Aerodromics
- Langley Aerodrome Tests
- Secretaries
- Aeronautics
- Airplanes
- Boats and boating
- Flight
- Inventions
- Record ID
- siris_sic_10312
