Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Smithsonian Institution
- Physical Description
- Gun-like appearance with trigger shutter release on gun stock and long barrel. With magazine, film winder, sighting line/focal length ajustment with two adjustable wheels. No lens.
- Summary
- Samuel Pierpont Langley, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 1887 to 1906 and an aviation pioneer who designed and flew unmanned powered aircraft, used this long-lens camera to study birds in flight. Langley installed photographers with cameras in two towers at the zoo in Washington's Rock Creek Park to take simultaneous photographs of bird wings from different angles. The photographer tripped the shutter with a trigger on the leather-coated wooden gun stock. The lens is missing.
- Credit Line
- Transferred from the Smithsonian Institution to the United States National Museum.
- 1887-1903
- Inventory Number
- A19820741000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- EQUIPMENT-Photographic
- Materials
- Wood gun stock, leather covered, and brass barrel (was leather covered).
- Dimensions
- 13 x 9 1/2 x 43 1/4 in. (33.0 x 24.1 x 109.9 cm)
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- Location
- Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA
- Hangar
- Boeing Aviation Hangar
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A19820741000
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9ef3ed44f-624c-4d00-8f03-4582a1d7b30e
