author
Herbert Newton Casson
1869–1951
A lively early voice in business writing, he turned the machinery of modern industry into stories ordinary readers could follow. His books on steel, telephones, sales, and success helped make technology and management feel vivid rather than remote.
4 Audiobooks
Die Erfolgreichen : (Thirty great lives)
by Herbert Newton Casson
The History of the Telephone
by Herbert Newton Casson
Cyrus Hall McCormick: His Life and Work
by Herbert Newton Casson
The Romance of the Reaper
by Herbert Newton Casson
About the author
Born in Odessa, Ontario, in 1869, Herbert Newton Casson grew up in a Methodist family and had little formal schooling before attending Victoria College. He was ordained as a Methodist minister, but after a heresy trial he left the ministry and moved into publishing and journalism.
In the 1890s and early 1900s, he worked in Boston and New York, wrote about social and labor issues, and later became a journalist who interviewed major public figures and inventors, including Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, Guglielmo Marconi, and Alexander Graham Bell. His writing increasingly focused on the fast-changing world of industry and business, and he became known for books such as The Romance of Steel and The History of the Telephone.
Casson later settled in England, where he wrote and lectured about efficiency, management, salesmanship, and self-improvement. He kept publishing for decades, building a reputation as a clear, energetic explainer of how modern business worked, and he died in Surrey in 1951.