Most people don't know about Samuel Pierpont Langley.

大多数人不知道塞缪尔·皮尔庞特·兰利。

Then how come we've never heard of Samuel Pierpont Langley?

但是为什么你们连听都没听说过他呢？

And Samuel Pierpont Langley had, what we assume, to be the recipe for success.

塞缪尔·兰利拥有所有大家认为是 成功的要素。

Samuel Pierpont Langley was given 50,000 dollars by the War Department to figure out this flying machine. Money was no problem.

国防部给了塞缪尔·兰利 5万美金 作为研制飞行器的资金。 所以说，资金不是问题。

Samuel Pierpont Langley was different. He wanted to be rich, and he wanted to be famous. He was in pursuit of the result. He was in pursuit of the riches. And lo and behold, look what happened.

塞缪尔·兰利就不同了， 他想要发财，他想要成名。 他追求的是最终结果，是变得富有。 看吧，看接下来怎么样了。