In 1913 Eiffel was awarded the Samuel P. Langley Medal for Aerodromics by the Smithsonian Institute.

After the Norman conquest, Hertfordshire was used for some of the new Norman castles at Bishop's Stortford and at the royal residence of Berkhamsted and at King's Langley, a staging post between London and the royal residence of Berkhamsted.

Hence, CV-1 was the aircraft carrier USS Langley and BB-1 was the battleship USS Indiana.

It is generally believed that Nicholas Breakspear was born at Breakspear Farm in the parish of Abbots Langley in Hertfordshire and received his early education at the Abbey School, St Albans ( St Albans School ).

The tempera medium was used by American artists such as the Regionalists Andrew Wyeth, Thomas Hart Benton and his student Roger Medearis ; expressionists Ben Shahn, Mitchell Siporin and John Langley Howard, magic realists George Tooker, Paul Cadmus, Jared French, Julia Thecla and Louise E. Marianetti ; Art Students League of New York instructors Kenneth Hayes Miller and William C. Palmer, Social Realists Isabel Bishop, Reginald Marsh, and Noel Rockmore, Edward Laning, Anton Refregier, Jacob Lawrence, Rudolph F. Zallinger, Robert Vickrey, Peter Hurd, and science fiction artist John Schoenherr, notable as the cover artist of Dune.

While using the new Eight-Foot High-Speed Tunnel, a wind tunnel with performance up to Mach 0. 95 at NACA's Langley Research Center, he was surprised by the increase in drag due to shock wave formation.

Before 1850, most of the freshwater on the islands was held in beaver ( Castor canadensis ) ponds, although the aquatic mammal was extirpated by Hudson's Bay Company fur stations at Fort Langley and San Juan Island.

Fan blades of Langley Research Center's 16 foot transonic wind tunnel in 1990, before it was wikt: mothball | mothballed in 2004.

Ali G was part of a group called Berkshire Massif, and he ran and grew up in an area of Slough called Langley ( both actual locations in the UK ).

Parts of Upton Court were built in 1325, while St Mary the Virgin Church in Langley was probably built in the late 11th or early 12th century, though it has been rebuilt and enlarged several times.

The other one was the York branch, initiated by his uncle Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York ( see section " Seniority in line from Edward III " below ).

His executor, Thomas Langley, was at his side.

The unsuccessful Langley Aerodrome was an early example of this layout.

Richard of York was not only the wealthiest magnate in the land, but was also descended from King Edward III's third son Lionel of Antwerp and fifth son Edmund of Langley, leading to calls that he be recognised as successor to the childless King Henry.

In the summer of 1370 John was sent with a small army to Aquitaine to reinforce his ailing elder brother, the Black Prince and his younger brother Edmund of Langley, Earl of Cambridge.

Silver City's first base was at Langley Aerodrome.

Thomas of Woodstock was named Duke of Gloucester and Edmund of Langley became Duke of York, thereby founding the House of York, which later fought for the throne with John of Gaunt's Lancastrian descendants during the Wars of the Roses.

When he was a few months old, Robson's family moved to the nearby village of Langley Park where his father was a coal miner.

Instead, he began to play for Langley Park Juniors on Saturday mornings at the age of eleven, and by the time he was 15, he was representing the club at Under-18 level.

It described the shooting and other lesser incidents that took place in the days before as unprovoked attacks on peaceful, law-abiding inhabitants, and was, according to historian Neal Langley York, probably the most influential description of the event.

Langley was later mentioned in the Imaginary Conversation of Isaak Walton.

Langley is mentioned in the song " Watch the World " by Box Car Racer.

A small community of Langley developed on the Fox Hollies Road and was mentioned in the Domesday Book, however, it was nothing more than a hamlet with no church, inn or community meeting centre.

He is mentioned in the novelization of 2001: A Space Odyssey as a scientist who instructed the computer HAL 9000 in its basic functions ( in the movie, it was a " Mr. Langley ").

Leading opposition batsman Everton Weekes, edged Benaud in his first over, but Gil Langley dropped the catch.

* March 20 – The USS Langley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier.

Hill's first paper, published in 1909 while working under the supervision of John Newport Langley, is a landmark in the history of receptor theory.

Langley arrived in Pittsburgh in 1867 to become the first director of the Alleghany Observatory, after the institution had fallen into hard times and been given to the Western University of Pennsylvania.

In the first attempt, Langley said the wing clipped part of the catapult, leading to a plunge into the river " like a handful of mortar ," according to one reporter.

The first bolometer used by Langley consisted of two platinum strips covered with lampblack.

Next the firm built its first line of track, the Hanwell and Langley section of the Great Western Railway, which included the Wharncliffe Viaduct.

These centers were the first shopping destination at Langley Park.

Edward of Norwich, Earl of Rutland, the first son of Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, fifth son of Edward III of England, favorite of his cousin Richard II, had been created Earl of Cork in the Peerage of Ireland during his nephew's personal reign.

* USS Langley ( CV-1 ), the first aircraft carrier of the Navy, converted from the collier Jupiter in 1922, and sunk in February 1942 by the Japanese

The Hawker Tornado ( 1940 ), Typhoon ( 1940 ), Tempest ( 1942 ), Fury ( 1944 ), Sea Fury ( 1945 ), and the General Aircraft Hamilcar X tank-carrying glider ( 1945 ) all made their first flights from Langley.

The Cable Corporation, based at Langley, was the first cable company in the world to offer voice, video and data services to business and residential users.

The first volume of writer Charles Tyrie's autobiography is titled The Langley Boy ; Tyrie grew up in Langley in the 1940s and 1950s.

The title Duke of York was first created in the Peerage of England in 1385 for Edmund of Langley, the fourth surviving son of Edward III, and an important character in Shakespeare's Richard II.

* April 5 — Noel Langley completes the first script for The Wizard of Oz.

NACA's first wind tunnel was formally dedicated at Langley on June 11, 1920.

The son of Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, and his first wife Isabella of Castile.

* 7 October – Samuel Langley conducts the first tests of his full-sized man-carrying version of his earlier model aerodromes.

* Walter Langley moves to Newlyn, Cornwall, becoming the first resident artist of the Newlyn School.

James Douglas was sworn in as the new colony's first governor in Fort Langley, but New Westminster was chosen as the capital, as Fort Langley was less defensible from an American invasion.