Henry Robinson Towne (August 24, 1844 – October 15, 1924) was an American mechanical engineer and businessman, known as an early systematizer of management...
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English painter Francis Towne (1739 or 1740–1816), British landscape painter Gene Towne (1904–1979), American screenwriter Henry R. Towne (1844–1924), American...
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Yale (company) (redirect from Yale & Towne Manufacturing Co.)
became the foundation of the enterprise founded by Linus Yale Jr. and Henry R. Towne. Its markets were initially in the United States, and expanded across...
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mechanical engineer, and metalsmith. He was a co-founder with millionaire Henry R. Towne of the Yale Lock Company, which became the premier manufacturer of locks...
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List of industrial engineers (section R)
Efficiency Movement and a champion of standardisation and division of tasks Henry R. Towne – American mechanical engineer and businessman, known as an early systematizer...
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tumbler lock. Linus Yale Jr. would later found the Yale Lock Company with Henry R. Towne, which would end up becoming the premier lock manufacturer in the United...
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Premier manufacturer of locks in the U.S., partner of millionaire Henry R. Towne, a fellow of F.W. Taylor, his son John B. Yale married the daughter...
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manufacturing process, most notably starting with the presentation by Henry R. Towne (1844–1924) of his paper The Engineer as An Economist (1886). From 1960...
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The committee included Taylor allies such as James Mapes Dodge and Henry R. Towne. The committee delegated the report to the editor of the American Machinist...
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introducing Taylorism to Britain Stakhanovism Theory X and Theory Y Henry R. Towne (1844–1924), ASME President and author of the seminal The Engineer as...
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also wrote under the names Hugh Dolnar, John Randol, and Henry Roland. With Henry R. Towne, Henry Metcalfe, Emile Garcke, John Tregoning and Slater Lewis...
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II (1886–1887) George H. Babcock (1887–1888) Horace See (1888–1889) Henry R. Towne (1889–1890) Oberlin Smith (1890–1891) Robert W. Hunt (1891–1892) Charles...
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social class of very rich local industrialists including neighbors Henry Clay Frick, Henry J. Heinz, and Andrew Carnegie. Their guests included Nicola Tesla...
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Jersey. During about this time, his brother John. B. Yale and president Henry R. Towne were serving the railroad industry though the Yale Lock Company, manufacturing...
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List of business theorists (section R)
Professor of Business Administration Jean-Marie Toulouse Phil Town Henry R. Towne - scientific management (1890s) John Tregoning - factory management...
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Inventors Headed by Thomas A. Edison. COOPER HEWITT A MEMBER Hudson Maxim, Henry A. Wise Wood, Alfred Craven, and F.J. Sprague Other New Yorkers. NOTED ENGINEERS...
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Science and Industry was established through a $2,500,000 bequest from Henry R. Towne, for the, "creation of a technical museum." The newly created museum...
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II (1886–1887) George H. Babcock (1887–1888) Horace See (1888–1889) Henry R. Towne (1889–1890) Oberlin Smith (1890–1891) Robert W. Hunt (1891–1892) Charles...
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8 Million Ways to Die (category Films with screenplays by Robert Towne)
screenplay was written by Oliver Stone, an uncredited Robert Towne and David Lee Henry (R. Lance Hill using a pseudonym). An alcoholic Los Angeles Sheriff's...
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II (1886–1887) George H. Babcock (1887–1888) Horace See (1888–1889) Henry R. Towne (1889–1890) Oberlin Smith (1890–1891) Robert W. Hunt (1891–1892) Charles...
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Yale Sr., and father Linus Yale Jr.. Under the presidency of Henry R. Towne, Yale and Towne would build and scale the company into a global conglomerate...
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(1992) recalled, that this was the main reason why Henry Metcalfe, and others in those days as Henry R. Towne, John Tregoning and Horace Lucian Arnold, made...
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Pennsylvania. General Alumni Society. p. 62 – via Google Books. "John Henry Towne of Lock Firm Dies" (PDF). The New York Times. September 30, 1942. p. 23...
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the works of initial contributions as Captain Henry Metcalfe (1885/86), Emile Garcke (1887), Henry R. Towne (1891), etc., and notable further contributions...
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II (1886–1887) George H. Babcock (1887–1888) Horace See (1888–1889) Henry R. Towne (1889–1890) Oberlin Smith (1890–1891) Robert W. Hunt (1891–1892) Charles...
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Whittlesy House, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. Dennison, Henry S.; Filene, L.; Flanders, R.; Leeds, M. (1938), Toward full employment, New York: McGraw-Hill...
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industrial railways. The innovative company was purchased by the Yale and Towne Manufacturing in 1920 shortly after C. W. Hunt Co produced a battery powered...
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Robert Henry Thurston (October 25, 1839 – October 25, 1903) was an American engineer, and the first Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stevens Institute...
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Liversedge). Crosby, Lockwood & Sons, 1889. "Gain Sharing"; a paper by Henry R. Towne; presented at the May, 1889, meeting of the American Society of Mechanical...
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the management engineers themselves, or industrial leaders such as Henry R. Towne, James M. Dodge, and Brig. Gen. Crozier of the Ordinance Department...
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