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The Langley Aerodrome. Binghampton, NY: Link Aviation, 1956?

A list of books forming the Langley aeronautical collection deposited in the Library of Congress by the Smithsonian Institution. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1930.

Brewer, Griffith. The Langley machine and the Hammondsport trials. London, Royal Aeronautical Society, 1921?

Langley, Samuel P. and Manley, Charles. Langley Memoir on Mechanical Flight. Washington, DC. Smithsonian Institution, 1911.

Langley, Samuel P. Experiments in Aerodynamics. Washington, DC Smithsonian Institution, 1891, 1902.

Vaeth, J. Gordon. Langley, man of science and flight. New York, Ronald Press Co., 1966.

Langley, Samuel P. Langley memoir of mechanical flight. Pt. 1, 1887-1896 by Samuel P. Langley. Pt. 2, 1897-1903 by Charles M. Manly. Washington, DC., Smithsonian Institution, 1911.

Langley, Samuel P. The Langley aerodrome. Washington, DC., Smithsonian Institution, 1901.

Meyer, Robert B. Langley's aero engine of 1903. Washington, DC,. Smithsonian Institution, 1971.

Abbot, Charles G. Samuel Pierpont Langley. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1906.

Abbot, Charles G. The relations between the Smithsonian Institution and the Wright brothers. Washington, DC., Smithsonian Institution, 1928.

Leffmann, Henry. A tribute: Samuel Pierpont Langley: pioneer in practical aviation. Washington, DC., U.S.G.P.O., 1920.

Obendorf, Donald L. Samuel P. Langley, solar scientist, 1867-1891 (thesis). Berkeley, CA., University of California, 1969.

Fred C. Kelly: The Wright Brothers. A biography authorized by Orville Wright. New York, Harcourt, Brace, and Co., 1943.

Crouch, Tom. The Bishop’s Boys: a life of the Wright brothers (has a chapter on the Langley controversy). New York, W.W. Norton, 1989.

Exhibiting Dilemmas: issues of representation at the Smithsonian. Edited by Amy Henderson and Adrienne Kaeppler. Washington, DC; Smithsonian Institution press, 1997. See chapter 5 on the Langley-Wright controversy.


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