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Samuel Pierpoint Langley

DEFINITIONS OF: Samuel Pierpoint Langley

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n United States astronomer and aviation pioneer who invented the bolometer and contributed to the design of early aircraft (1834-1906)

Synonyms:
Langley
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astronomer, stargazer, uranologist
a physicist who studies astronomy
artificer, discoverer, inventor
someone who is the first to think of or make something
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