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Carpenter got his degree from Princeton University in 1893, and started his career in industry. This resulted in the development of the concept of functionalized labour management department, which was set up within National Cash Register. To further promote the idea published the article in the Engineering Magazine in 1903. Around 1905 he left the company and to become President of the Herring-Hall Marvin Safe Company, the largest safe company in the world.
Here he wrote the book "Profit Making in Shop and Factory Management," published in 1908.
In the 1910s he joined the Recording and Computing Machines Company, a manufacturer of precision equipment. The Princeton Alumni Weekly in 1918 reported that "Charles U. Carpenter is the Vice-President and Manager of s, of the Recording and Computing Machines Company of Dayton, Ohio.
He has under him 9,000 employees. During the war he gave his big plant over to the manufacture of war supplies.
His first job was the production of six million time fuses.
He also made many of the optical instruments employed in sighting the guns. An unusual service which he personally rendered the country was the establishment of a training school for mechanics. So important was this work that it has been made the subject of a special bulletin by the Department of Labor, Imperial Munitions Hoard of Canada, and also by the Section on Industrial Training of the Council of National Defence at Washington." In 1920 Carpenter became president and general manager of the National Industrial Engineering Company, and in those days he was also Vice president of the western Appraisal Company.
U. U. Carpenter, Charles East. "Electric controlling and reversing switch." United States. Patent Number.
806,735. 5 December 1905. U. "Design for a handle for document-files." United States. Patent Number.
D42,991. 10 September 1912. "Fireproof safe." United States. Patent Number.
1,116,382. 10 November 1914.
"Sheet-metal structure." United States. Patent Number 1,373,865, 1921. "Typewriting machine." United States. Patent Number 1,451,203, 1923.
