https://www.amazon.com/Fancies-Henry-Alexander-Wise-Wood/dp/1355453518/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1579089404&sr=1-5
1903
https://www.amazon.com/Book-Symbols-Henry-Alexander-Wise/dp/1297574389/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1579089404&sr=1-4
1904
https://www.amazon.com/Hunger-Commercial-Immorality-United-States/dp/1356450717/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1579089404&sr=1-1
1908
inventor manufacturer publicist author
Henry Alexander Wise Wood was born on March 1, 1866, in New York City, New York, United States. He was a son of Fernando Wood, a politician of the Democratic Party and the 73rd and 75th mayor of New York City, and Alice Fenner (Mills) Wood.
Henry attended Media Academy in Pennsylvania, where he specialized in scientific subjects, and was about to enter college, when the death of his father, in 1881, made him work.
In the early 1880's, Henry took a position at the Campbell Printing Press and Manufacturing Company, then headed by John L. Brower, whose daughter he later married. In 1896, Wood became president of the company. Subsequent consolidations brought into being the Wood Newspaper Machinery Corporation, of which he long remained head.
To the printing industry Wood contributed a series of inventions, that brought great changes in newspaper printing processes. Most noted was the Autoplate (final patent, 1903), whereby an entire newspaper page was cast in metal, doing away with much hand labor. For this, in 1909, Wood was awarded the Elliott Cresson Gold Medal by the Franklin Institute. Wood also invented the Autoreel, a high-speed press-feeding device, and the Autopaster, which automatically replaced a run-off roll of paper in a newspaper press with a new roll without stopping the press.
From 1911 to 1919, Henry was editor of Flying magazine, which he had helped to found.
When World War I began in Europe, Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels asked Wood to join the Naval Consulting Board, an advisory group of inventors and engineers. Wood joined the board in 1915, but within a year, he was at odds with Daniels and the Wilson administration, charging, that Daniels had vitiated and withheld from the public a plan of the navy's General Board, which would have made the United States Navy the most powerful in the world by 1925. An ardent advocate of preparedness, Henry also attacked Secretary of War Lindley M. Garrison on similar grounds. In December 1915, Wood resigned his post and, hitherto an ardent Democrat, allied himself with the Republican Party. Besides, after the Armistice (1918), Wood organized and headed a society, opposed to American entrance into the League of Nations, urging the impeachment of President Wilson for promoting it.
Wood's multifarious activities did not lure him away from his chief interest, the newspaper machinery business, and he remained head of his manufacturing company until 1935, when he retired from the presidency to the chairmanship of the board. Also, in 1934, he became chairman of the NRA Code Authority of the newspaper machinery industry.
Moreover, Wood was the author of "Fancies" (1903) a volume of verse, "The Book of Symbols" (1904) and "Money-Hunger: A Brief Study of Commercial Immorality in the United States" (1908), among others.
Henry Alexander Wise Wood was mostly known as a manufacturer and inventor of printing machinery. He was responsible for a series of inventions, that brought great benefit to the newspaper printing processes. These inventions include the Autoplate, that enable the whole page of newspaper type to be cast in metal at once, the Autoreel, a high-speed press-feeder device, and the Autopaster, which automatically replaced a spent paper roll with a new one in a newspaper press without the need to stop the press. Through Wood's inventions and improved presses, the speed of newspaper production was increased from 24,000 to 60,000 copies per hour, printed and folded.
In addition, Wood was known as the author of such works, as "Fancies" (1903), "The Book of Symbols" (1904) and "Money-Hunger: A Brief Study of Commercial Immorality in the United States" (1908), among others.
It's also worth noting, that, as Henry was particularly interested in aviation, he was one of the first to predict, that the airplane and the submarine would eventually render great battleships obsolete.
Initially, Wood was a Democrat, but in his later years, he allied himself with the Republican Party.
As for his political views, Wood vehemently opposed the repeal of the Lusk Anti-Sedition laws in New York State in 1923 and he strongly advocated the restriction of immigration, engaging at one point in controversy with Elbert H. Gary, chairman of the United States Steel Corporation, charging, that Gary's and other large companies favored unrestricted immigration so that they might obtain cheap foreign labor.
Henry also voiced strong opinions on farm problems, finance, prohibition and other subjects in hundreds of letters to newspapers, published pamphlets and speeches.
Wood was a vitriolic critic of conscientious objectors to military service, not excepting those of the Society of Friends, his ancestral religion.
As Wood had a great interest in aviation, he became a member of the Aero Club of America in 1906 and was its vice-president for six years.
Henry married Elizabeth Ogden (Brower) Wood in 1891. Their marriage produced one daughter - Elizabeth.
Fernando Wood was an American politician of the Democratic Party and the 73rd and 75th mayor of New York City. He also served as a United States Representative (in 1841-1843, 1863-1865 and 1867-1881) and as Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means in both the 45th and 46th Congress (1877-1881).
