Henry Paynter

Henry Martyn Paynter (August 11, 1923 – June 14, 2002) was an American scientist and professor of mechanical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

[1] Henry Martyn Paynter IV was born in Evanston, Illinois and grew up in New York City and its environs.

[2] Paynter is celebrated for his contributions to "the analysis, design and control of complex multimedia systems and for developing the Bond graph modeling language.

His work was closely associated with George Philbrick, who is credited along with Clarence A. Lovell of Bell labs as the developer of the operational amplifier.

It was this specific task which 5 years later produced bond graphs, drawing naturally upon all the attitudes and experience indicated above.

So it was on April 24, 1959, when I was to deliver the lecture as posted below, I awoke that morning with the idea of the 0,1-junctions somehow planted in my head overnight!

)The Bond graph modelling approach was presented for the first time in the "Ports, Energy and Thermodynamic Systems" on April 24, 1959, at MIT, which was later published (Paynter, 1961).