And the drama struck on July 8th, 1872. That's when the director of the Allegheny Observatory, Samuel Pierpont Langley, returned to work to find the lens that was missing from his giant telescope.

TransLink has revealed the future locations of new bus rapid transit stations in Surrey, Maple Ridge, and Langley. Transit riders are also being asked for their feedback on initial designs of the ...

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito turned heads during a First Amendment case on Wednesday when he asked an absurd, and unexpected, question of the case's lawyer. The conservative Supreme Court ...

A Grade 7 student, along with peers and parents, protested outside her Langley, B.C., elementary school amid what they say is the failure of officials to tackle racism. Amy McGregor, 12 ...

Although the foundation of some of their work was laid by earlier aviation predecessors, such as Sir George Cayley, Clement Ader, Otto Lilienthal, Octave Chanute, and Samuel Pierpont Langley, they ...

C., the late Samuel Pierpont Langley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, had a four-winged flying machine called the Dragon Fly ready to take off from the top of a houseboat in the Potomac ...

Said Chief Justice Taft, descriptive: “The Langley Medal was established in memory of the third secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Samuel Pierpont Langley. During the last 15 years of his ...