Show DEATH CLAIMS SCIENTIST Professor 8 St P R Langl y of the ther r fion F Dies i sih So S 27 21 S P LangIe angley eo fet O f flue e fwd known as a 3 through throughout out ut the world died here hare at toda today W Washington or r Sam SamUel Uel P Langley who dIed at t ken S SC SC C today had asU ke or f 51 on Nov 22 h affected Ids his right sl side He was gradually rec fro from this attack when on the advice of ph he went south t to J e ethe the more rigorous months February aT ary and March I ill ii this city The im immediate Immediate mediate caUSE of his was not stated in the brief telegram sent from Aiken to the Smithsonian officials Professor Langley was i 7 years old and hIs whole lIfe had been devoted to scientific work Though by profession a civil engineer and architect astron astronomy astronomy omy occupied most ot of his bis Ume Several years ago Professor Langley conducted a series of with witha a flying machine at Widewater Va on the Potomac river the results of which were wa ch d with widespread Interest The experiments however ended Professor scientific career covered a wide range runge pt pf sUbjects and Included work in various institutions which was supplemented by frequent trips to Europe in visiting foreign ob observatories and other institutions Much ot of the scientific Ork rk done by Professor Langley has related to the sun Its heat spectra and aDd other sources ot of radiatIon and ho he had accompanied some ot of the eclipse observation exve Professor Langley had been the see sec secretary of the Smithsonian institution since 1887 He was B a member of eel scientific societies and his published writ writings writIngs ings Include more than one hundred titles |