The national hq of the CIA is in Langely, Virginia........................i wonder where it got its name........nearby McClean, Va.......i bet is named for Evelyn Walsh McClean.........whose father made his money mining cold in the Colorado area..................and who owned the Hope diamond...........she lived in DC for a good bit..........................................
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Pierpont_Langley
Samuel Pierpont Langley (/ˈlæŋli/; August 22, 1834 – February 27, 1906) was an ... Langley was the founder of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.
www.sil.si.edu/ondisplay/langley/intro.htm
Very few people today realize that Samuel P. Langley almost succeeded with inventing the airplane before the Wright brothers. Who was Langley and what did ...
siarchives.si.edu/history/samual-pierpont-langley
Samuel Pierpont Langley was the Smithsonian's third Secretary, from 1887 to 1906. Born in 1834 in Roxbury, Massachusetts, he attended the Boston Latin ...
siarchives.si.edu/.../wright-brothers-pioneers-aviat...
At this time, Samuel P. Langley was Secretary of the Smithsonian, and he had done extensive aeronautical research. He, too, was working on building the first ...
www.flyingmachines.org/lang.html
By mid-January of 1887, Langley was living in Washington, D.C., employed as Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, and as of that April he was ...
invention.psychology.msstate.edu/inventors/i/Langley/Langley.html
Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834 - 1906) is often used as a contrast to the Wrights. Unlike the ... The Smithsonian contributed a like sum towards Langley's efforts.
www.uh.edu/engines/epi32.htm
Charles Walcott, a long-time friend of Langley's who'd been influential in funding his work, was made director of the Smithsonian Institution in 1906 -- the same
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