Object Details
- Author
- Bell, Alexander Graham 1847-1922
- Subject
- Langley, S. P (Samuel Pierpont) 1834-1906
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Summary
- An instantaneous photograph by Alexander Graham Bell of Langley Aerodrome No. 5 in flight May 6, 1896. This aerodrome or flying machine was developed by Samuel Pierpont Langley, 1834-1906, astrophysicist and third Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1887-1906.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 15, Folder: 9B
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- May 6, 1896
- Standard number
- SIA2012-3092 and A18864 and A18868a
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Object
- Physical description
- Color: Black and White; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Object; Medium: Photographic print
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Secretaries
- Secretariats
- Aerodromics
- Airplanes
- Langley Aerodrome Tests
- Aeronautics
- Flight
- Inventions
- Record ID
- siris_sic_7894
