1. Mary Whiton Calkins, A First Book
in Psychology, p. 273.
2. Sully, The Teacher’s Handbook
of Psychology, p. 1.
3. Ibid., p. 54.
4. Hugo Muensterberg, American Problems,
p. 35.
5. Gillette and Dana, Cost Keeping and
Management Engineering,
p. 1.
6. F.W. Taylor, Shop Management,
para. 221. Harper Ed., p. 96.
7. F.W. Taylor, Shop Management,
para. 221-231. Harper Ed.,
pp. 96-98.
8. Compare H.L. Gantt, No. 1002, A.S.M.E.,
para. 9.
9. Compare H.P. Gillette, Cost
Analysis Engineering, pp. 1-2. 10. F.W.
Taylor, Principles of Scientific Management,
p. 37. 11. F.W. Taylor, Shop Management,
para. 245. Harper Ed., p. 104. 12. For excellent
example of special routing see: Charles Day,
Industrial Plants,
chap. VII.
13. C. Babbage, Economy of Manufacturers.
p. 172. “The constant
repetition of the same process
necessarily produces in the
workman a degree of excellence
and rapidity in his particular
department, which is never
possessed by a person who is obliged
to execute many different
processes.”
14. F.W. Taylor, On the Art of Cutting
Metals, Paper No. 1119,
A.S.M.E.
15. C.G. Barth, Slide Rules for Machine
Shops and Taylor System.
Paper No. 1010, A.S.M.E.
16. H.L. Gantt, Work, Wages and Profits,
p. 19. 17. Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations,
p. 2. “The greatest improvement
in the productive powers of
labor, and the greater part of the
skill, dexterity, and judgment,
with which it is anywhere
directed, or applied, seem
to have been the effects of the
division of labor.”
Also p. 4.
18. H.K. Hathaway, The Value of “Non-Producers”
in Manufacturing
Plants. Machinery,
Nov., 1906, p. 134.
19. Gillette and Dana, Cost Keeping and Management
Engineering,
p. 11.
20. Morris Llewellyn Cooke, Bulletin No. 5,
Carnegie Foundation for
the Advancement of Teaching,
p. 15.
21. H.L. Gantt, Work, Wages and Profits,
p. 120.
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CHAPTER IV
MEASUREMENT
DEFINITION OF MEASUREMENT.—“Measurement,” according to the Century Dictionary,—“is the act of measuring,” and to measure is—“to ascertain the length, extent, dimensions, quantity or capacity of, by comparison with a standard; ascertain or determine a quantity by exact observation,” or, again, “to estimate or determine the relative extent, greatness or value of, appraise by comparison with something else.”