Show WELL KNOWN SCIENTIST DEAD pro samuel P langley to attack of paralysis prof baduel P langley secretary of the and known as a scientist throughout the world died at alken S feb 27 prof langley had a slight stroke bt paralysis on nov 22 which affected his elgh side he as gradually re covering from this attack when on the advice of his physician he went south to escape the more rigorous months of february and march in washing ton prof langley was 72 year old ills whole life had been devoted to scientific work though by protes sion a civil engineer and architect astronomy occupied most of his time several years ago prof langley con ducted a series of experiments with q flying machine at Wi dewater va on the Pon tomac river the results of which were watched with widespread interest the experiments however ended disastrously it was a singular coincidence that on the day of prof langley a death the question of ap mw for flying machines came up dently in the debate in the house while the army bill was under consideration considerable of the scientific work don by prof langley has related to the sun its heat spec tra and other sources of and he accompanied some of the eclipse observation expeditions prof lang ley had been the secretary of the smithsonian Smiths onlan institution since 1887 he was a member of scientific societies and his published writings include more than titles |