Henry Gantt

Henry Laurence Gantt ( born May 20, 1861 in Calvert County, Maryland, † November 23, 1919 in Montclair, New Jersey) was an American mechanical engineer and management consultant. He graduated from the McDonogh School and the Johns Hopkins College and worked as a teacher and designer.

Gantts parents were Virgil Gantt and Mary Jane Steuart. The father Virgil Gantt ran a boarding house. Henry Gantt married in 1899 Mary Eliza Snow.

From 1887 to 1893 Gantt worked with Frederick Winslow Taylor and is considered one of the founders of Scientific Management. In 1910 he developed the Gantt chart, which is used among other things in project management to report the project status as well as in machine capacity and job scheduling.

Works

  • Gantt, Henry L., A graphical daily balance in manufacture, Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Volume XXIV, pages 1322-1336, 1903.
  • Gantt, Henry L., Organizing for Work, Harcourt, Brace, and Howe, New York, 1919. Reprinted by Hive Publishing Company, Easton, Maryland, 1973.
  • Gantt, Henry L., Work, Wages, and Profits, second edition, Engineering Magazine Co., New York, 1916. Reprinted by Hive Publishing Company, Easton, Maryland, 1973.
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