Stevens Institute of Technology - Link Yearbook (Hoboken, NJ)

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1 rf.....,E infix? 1.44 L , l, i' L, I-,QQ I I I I I . I, , I I.. 1E9 firm, he designed and constructed a rod, wire and nail mill for the Portage Iron Co. Mr. Whitney is now president and treasurer of The Whitney Co., Engineering Contractors and Builders, New York City. He has executed engineering work on piers and docks, and has been identified with railway, light, power and water supply undertakings. He has also constructed buildings in Canada, Mexico, Central and South American countries, Japan, and Syria. Probably no man has had more influence on the increase of production in manufacturing work here and abroad than did Dr. Frederick Winslow Taylor, '83 fdeceased, 19155. Entering the employ of the Midvale Streel Company in 1878, he successively became gang boss, assistant foreman, foreman of the machine shop, master mechanic, chief draftsman, and chief engineer. While still a foreman he clearly foresaw what a handicap his lack of knowledge of cutting steel would be- come to him, and so he set for himself the task of determining the laws of cutting metals. Although the work was not completed for over twenty years, subsequent investigations showed how wonderfully accurate was his early work. The Taylor- White process of treating modern high speed tools was one of the results of his numerous experiments. CMaunsel White, '79, died in l9l2.D This process has greatly aided the speeding up of production, and is destined to have an even more far-reaching effect when the other problems of machine shop management are likewise solved. Mr. Taylor's other great work was the introduction of scientific management into industrial work. His studies along this line were also begun while in the employ of the Midvale Steel Company, and as early as 1887 he had fully developed the methods of detail analysis and study which were later to be- come the origin of the Taylor System, now so widely employed here and in Eu- ropean countries, particularly France and Germany. Throughout his career he was given many opportunities of applying his principles, having been detailed with the work of organizing the management of manufacturing establishments of various kinds, including the machine works of such companies as the Bethlehem Steel Company, Cramp's Shipbuilding Company, and the Midvale Steel Company. The early part of the career of Henry Lawrence Gantt, '84 Cdeceased, 1919Q, was marked by his association with Frederick W. Taylor at the Midvale and Beth- lehem Steel Companies. With this as a basis and with his own personal ability as an organizer he later established himself as an industrial engineer, carrying out his work with much thought and originality. The latter part of his career was devoted mainly to speeding up production, in which connection his bonus system together with the Task System of Taylor has done so much in promoting industrial efficiency to the satisfaction of both employer and employee. During the war Mr. Gantt acted in a consulting capacity in the Ordnance Department of the army. His production charts were much used by the Emergency Fleet Corporation and the Shipping Board in routing ships and in following up construction work. Such, in brief, are the accomplishments of Stevens engineers. . Pictures obtained from Morton Memorial Volume. 22 . 17 l l

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TF E 4. EF li I l E S' . in F. Q. if 9 25.1 , ii : if if 1 E 1 . ' E , if i. . by his company. Mr. Bond has devoted much time to establishing uniformity in sizes of bolts, units and threads, and to establishing num- erous other applications of standard inter- changeability in manufacturing and in railroad service. He was for many years Manager of the Standards and Gauge Department of the ' Pratt Sz Whitney Co., and has been called in in an advisory capacity by the Government and Engineering Society Committees in their work of standardizing weights, measures, etc. The iron and steel industry has likewise attracted its quota of adherents. Even before graduating, in 1892, William Cooper Cuntz Qde- ceased, 19165 had taken a position with the Pennsylvania Steel Company, at Steelton. Pa., where he wrote his thesis on Comparative De- signs of a 243-foot Railroad Bridge under Mini- mum and Maximum Loadingsn in conjunction with his classmate, FrederickW. Cohen. He obtained his drafting room and shop training in the bridge and construction department. The erection of a viaduct at Norwich, N. Y., was his first big job. After serving as resident engineer for his company in Boston, he became an Eu- ropean resident engineer with headquarters in London. During his travels in the British Isles and on the Continent he obtained first-hand knowledge of the Eu- ropean iron and steel industry. He also obtained for his company the contract for the building of the piers of the North German Lloyd at Hoboken, which replaced those destroyed by fire in 1900. In 1910 he resigned his position with the Pennsyl- vania Steel Co. in order to become General Manager and aDirector of the Gold- schmidt Thermit Co. of New York. Under his management great progress was made in the technical development of the Thermit process for welding heavy sec- tions, as crank shafts and locomotive frames, and for the production of special metals and alloys. In fact the increasing use of carbon-free metals and alloys is largely due to the initiative and perseverance of Mr. Cuntz in their manufacture. Another follower of the iron and steel industry is Alfred Rutgers Whitney, Jr. CM. E. '90, E. D. 'QU who entered the employ of the Portage Iron Co., Duncans- ville, Pa., as a laborer, and successively occupied the positions of machinist, mill- hand, shipping clerk and assistant manager. He designed and constructed a mill for this company, and in 1891 he superintended the designing and preparation ofthe plans and specifications of the buildings of the Puget Sound Wire Nail 8: Steel Co. at Everett, Wash., of which he became general manager. He also installed the machinery and took charge of operations, later becoming vice-president and largely increasing the plant. In 1894 he went to Japan as representative of the Carnegie Steel Company on armor plate during the China-Japanese War. Returning to New York City, in 1896, he joined the A. R. Whitney Co., iron and steel contractors and builders, and New York agents for the Carnegie Steel Co. While a member of this 16 im. FIIEDERICK TAYLOR ' ZE2

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NNI MIQIMIII HEMIIXJW .Alumni OLAF IvI. KELLY, . '97 ADOLPH SORGE, JR., . '75 RAYMOND s. BALDWIN, '03 CHARLES F. TISCHNER. '02 C. H. KUPER, . . '00 RICHARD H. RICE, '85 F. IvI. WALKER, '07 iinhrrgrahuatw ALFRED JOHN RINGEN, '21 JOHN JAMES HURLEY, - - '23 ARTHUR WILLIAM DRESCHER, . '23 STEWART EDWARD EUSTICE, . '25 ROBERT BOGARDUS FULLER, . '24