Carl Georg Barth

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Carl G. Barth, 1911.
One of Carl G. Barth's slide rules for filming

Carl Georg Lange Barth (born February 28, 1860 in Christiania , † October 28, 1939 in Philadelphia ) was an American mathematician and engineer who introduced and popularized the use of slide rules in scientific management to determine optimal machine settings.

biography

Carl Georg Barth was born in Christiania, today's Oslo. He was the fourth child of Jakob Boeckman Barth, a lawyer, and Adelaide Magdeline Lange Barth, daughter of a Danish clergyman. His education took place in the public schools of Lillehammers . He obtained his university exams at what was then Christiania University . He later attended the Norwegian Navy's technical school in Horten . In 1877 Barth began vocational training at the local naval base in Karljohansvern .

In 1899, the rationalization consultant Frederick W. Taylor brought Barth to his team at Bethlehem Steel . Carl Barth helped Taylor develop special slide rules for determining rotation and feed speeds during turning work. In 1902 Taylor and Barth took over an order from William Sellers at the mechanical engineering company "William Sellers & Company of Philadelphia ". A report about the use of the slide rule there appeared in 1904 in the American journal Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

In 1905, Barth set up his own engineering office. He was one of the first management consultants in the field of scientific management and later taught at Harvard University . He also worked as the editor of the Home Study magazine for the International Correspondence School of Scranton Pennsylvania . In 1909 he was responsible for the critical project for the introduction of scientific management in the Watertown Arsenal in Watertown, Massachusetts.

literature

  • Kenneth O. Bjork: Saga in steel and concrete: Norwegian engineers in America. The Association, Northfield (Minn.) 1947.
  • Morgen Witzel (Ed.): The encyclopedia of history of American management. Thoemmes Continuum, Bristol 2005, ISBN 1-84371-131-1 , p. 24.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ US Patent 753,840,1904.
  2. ↑ Florence M. Manning: Carl G. Barth, 1860-1939: A Sketch. In: Norwegian-American Studies. Volume XIII, p. 114, read July 4, 2011.
  3. ↑ Frederick Winslow Taylor, Class of 1883. ( Memento from August 5, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Stevens Institute of Technology (Ed.) Read on July 4, 2011.
  4. ↑ M. Eugene Merchant, Susan M. Moehring (collaborators): An Interpretive Review of 20th US Machining and Grinding Research. TechSolve, Cincinnati, Ohio 2003. (PDF) , read July 4, 2011.
  5. ^ Taylorism at the Watertown Arsenal. In: Ramchandran Jaikumar, Roger E. Bohn (Eds.): From Filing and Fitting to Flexible Manufacturing: A Study in the Evolution of Process Control. In: Foundations and Trends in Technology, Information and Operations Management. Volume 1, Issue 1. doi: 10.1561 / 0200000001
personal data
SURNAME Barth, Carl Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barth, Carl Georg Lange (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician and engineer
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Christiania
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1939
Place of death Philadelphia