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Willard C. Brinton
Willard Cope Brinton (Dec. 22, 1880 – Nov. 29, 1957〔''Mechanical Engineering,'' Vol. 80, 1958. p. 158〕) was an American consulting engineer, president of Brinton Associates, and information visualisation pioneer,〔Wibke Weber (2008). ''Kompendium Informationsdesign.'' p. 38〕〔Levant, Yves, and Olivier de La Villarmois, eds. ''French Accounting History: New Contributions.'' Routledge, 2014. p. 69〕〔Yann Giraud, Lo¨ıc Charles. ''(Economics for the Masses: The Visual Display of Economic Knowledge in the United States (1921-1945) ),'' 2014〕 particularly known for publication of the 1914 textbook on graphic methods, entitled ''Graphic methods for presenting facts.''〔Funkhouser, H. Gray. "Historical development of the graphical representation of statistical data." ''Osiris'' (1937): 269-404.〕〔Beniger, James R., and Dorothy L. Robyn. "Quantitative graphics in statistics: A brief history." ''The American Statistician'' 32.1 (1978): 1-11.〕〔Friendly, Michael, and Daniel J. Denis. "Milestones in the history of thematic cartography, statistical graphics, and data visualization." Seeing Science: Today American Association for the Advancement of Science (2008).〕
== Biography ==
Brinton was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania to Samuel Lewis and Elizabeth (Smith) Brinton. He received his BS in Mechanical engineering from Harvard University in 1907.
Brinton started his career as mechanical engineer working for various companies,〔Howard Wainer (2013). ''Graphic Discovery: A Trout in the Milk and Other Visual Adventures.'' p. 153〕 and travelled through the United States, and to Europe, Japan and China. Back in New York he started his own consulting company. One of his notable works in the early 1920s was the proposal to initiate a bi-state New York harbor agency, which resulted in the creation of the Port of New York Authority. Brinton also designed production-control equipment for which he received several patents,〔 and wrote two textbooks on graphic methods.
Brinton had become associate member of the ASME in 1907 and full member in 1912. In 1914 he became chairman of a new committee to develop standards for graphic presentation.〔GK VanPatter. "(Lost Stories Information Design History )," on ''humantific.com'', January 30, 2012.〕 He was director of the American Statistical Association in 1917 under the presidency of Allyn Abbott Young, president of the Harvard Engineering Society in 1932, and member of the Newcomen Society of the United States.〔
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