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Henry R(obinson) Towne
(28 Aug 1844 - 15 Oct 1924)
American mechanical engineer and businessman who formed the Yale Lock Manufacturing Co. (Oct 1868) with Linus Yale, Jr., to manufacture the cyclinder lock invented by Yale. Towne was elected president of the 1888. He was He was among the first American industrialists to expand the realm of the engineer to include the economics of engineering, encompassing production and management.
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Science Quotes by Henry R(obinson) Towne (1)
The monogram of our national initials, which is the symbol for our monetary unit, the dollar, is almost as frequently conjoined to the figures of an engineer's calculations as are the symbols indicating feet, minutes, pounds, or gallons. … This statement, while true in regard to the work of all engineers, applies particularly to that of the mechanical engineer...
— Henry R(obinson) Towne
'The Engineer as an Economist', Proceedings of the Chicago Meeting (25-28 May 1886)Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1886), 7, 428.
