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False Start: Charles D. Walcott, the Langley Aeronautical Laboratory and the Birth of the NACA, 1909-1915
Tom D. Crouch, PhDSenior Curator, AeronauticsNational Air and Space MuseumSmithsonian Instsitution
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Charles Doolittle Walcott1850-1927
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Albert Francis Zahm1862-1954
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Washington Irving Chambers1856-1934
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Robert Simpson Woodward
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Da vid W. Taylor Richard Cockburn Maclauen1870-1920
The Opposition
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Regent’s Committee on the Langley AerodynamicalLaboratory, 1913
A.G. Bell
Judge George Gray
Rep. John Dalzell
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Walcott Zahm Chambers Richardson Scriven
Russell Humphries Straton Hammond
Wright Curtiss
Reber
Advisory CommitteeLangley Aerodynamical Laboratory
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Sir Richard Glazebrook1854-1935
Sir Leonard Bairstow
Gustave EiffelLudwig Prandtl
Jerome Hunsaker
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Left to Right: Dr. William Durand, Stanford University, California, Dr. S.W. Stratton, Director, Bureau of Standards, Brig.Gen. George P. Scriven, Chief Signal Officer, War Dept, Dr. C.F. Marvin, Chief, United States Weather Bureau, Dr. Michael I Pupin, Columbia University, New York. Standing: Holden C. Richardson, Naval Instructor, Dr. John F. Hayford, Northwestern University, Illinois, Capt. Mark L. Bristol, Director of Naval Aeronautics, Lt. Col. Samuel Reber, Signal Corps, Aviation Section
First Meetin g of the NACA, Walcott missing