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

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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

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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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