4. Thoughts…
SAMUEL PIERPONT LANGLEY
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Almost nobody knows him
Pioneer of aviation
He was the most resourced in
finding the solution for flight
He was the most qualified
(astronomer, physicist, inventor of
the bolometer), Harvard College
Observatory assistant, Mathematics
professor at US Naval Academy, and
founder of Smithsonian
Astrophysical Observatory, a science
research center.
Everyone believed he would find
the solution to flight
WRIGHT BROTHERS
• Almost everybody knows about
them
• They are the first to find the
solution for flight
• They were under-resourced in
finding solution for flight,
funded their flight project with
proceeds form bicycle shop.
• They had no college education
• No one believed in them
