| Henry Dreyfuss  AKA Henry S. Dreyfuss
Born: 2-Mar-1904
Birthplace: Brooklyn, NY
Died: 5-Oct-1972
Location of death: Pasadena, CA
Cause of death: Suicide
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Inventor Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Product designer, human factors engineer Designed the Hoover vacuum cleaner, the Polaroid Land camera, the round Honeywell thermostat, the Princess telephone, and countless other everyday products.
Wife: Doris Marks (d. 5-Oct-1972 suicide)
Son: John
Daughter: Gail
Daughter: Ann
Professor: University of California at Los Angeles (1963-70)
Administrator: Trustee, California Institute of Technology (1963)
Bell Laboratories consultant 1930
Deere consultant 1937
General Electric consultant
Honeywell consultant
Lockheed consultant
Polaroid consultant
RCA consultant
Sears Roebuck consultant
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Is the subject of books:
Henry Dreyfuss, Industrial Designer: The Man in the Brown Suit, 1997, BY: Russell Flinchum, DETAILS: (biography)
Author of books:
Designing for People (1955)
Industrial Design: A Pictorial Accounting 1929-1957 (1957)
The Measure of Man: Human Factors in Design (1960)
Symbol Sourcebook: An Authoritative Guide to International Graphic Symbols (1972)
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