Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Samuel Pierpont Langley
Born: August 22, 1834
Died: February 27, 1906 (aged 71)
Bio: Samuel Pierpont Langley was an American astronomer, physicist, inventor of the bolometer and pioneer of aviation.
Known for:
- The new astronomy (1884)
- Experiments in Aerodynamics (1891)
- The Internal Work of the Wind (1893)