Henry R. Towne Quote

As an engineer by training and practice, and as a manufacturer having upwards of thirty-five years of practical experience in industrial management in many phases, I avail myself with pleasure of this opportunity of meeting this large body of students who are preparing themselves for active work in the world, and of submitting for your consideration some suggestions concerning your future work, especially in the field with which I am most familiar and in which some of you, I feel sure, will find your best opportunities, and which will form the topic of my argument, namely, Industrial Engineering


Lead paragraph - Industrial Engineering, 1905


As an engineer by training and practice, and as a manufacturer having upwards of thirty-five years of practical experience in industrial management...

As an engineer by training and practice, and as a manufacturer having upwards of thirty-five years of practical experience in industrial management...

As an engineer by training and practice, and as a manufacturer having upwards of thirty-five years of practical experience in industrial management...

As an engineer by training and practice, and as a manufacturer having upwards of thirty-five years of practical experience in industrial management...