Henry Grady Weaver (December 24, 1889 – January 3, 1949) was the director of Customer Research Staff for
General Motors Corporation, and shown on the cover of the November 14, 1938 issue of
Time Magazine. He is credited with developing the use of the survey questionnaire to investigate customer preferences for design features in cars.
Early life and education
He was named after, but not related to,
Henry Woodfin Grady
Henry Woodfin Grady (May 24, 1850 – December 23, 1889) was an American journalist and orator who helped reintegrate the states of the Confederacy into the Union after the American Civil War. Grady encouraged the industrialization of the So ...
who died the day before Weaver was born. He was nicknamed Buck Weaver after the baseball player of the same name who later was part of the 1919
Black Sox scandal.
He was born in
Eatonton, Georgia and obtained his Bachelor of Science from
Georgia Tech in 1911.
Career
Blind in his right eye since birth, he worked as a mechanic, salesman and draftsman before becoming director of Customer Research Staff of
General Motors Corporation. It was for that work that he was placed on the cover of the November 14, 1938 issue of ''
Time''.
He is best known for his work, ''
The Mainspring of Human Progress
''The Mainspring of Human Progress'', by Henry Grady Weaver, is a libertarian history book published in 1947 by Talbot Books. In 1953, the Foundation for Economic Education printed a revised edition and has done all subsequent printings. The bo ...
''.
References
External links
''The Mainspring of Human Progress''
1889 births
1949 deaths
Writers from Georgia (U.S. state)
Georgia Tech alumni
General Motors former executives
People from Eatonton, Georgia
Market researchers
American libertarians
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