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Frederick W. Taylor
(20 Mar 1856 - 21 Mar 1915)
American engineer and inventor who is known as the father of scientific management, optimizing production efficiency through “time and motion study.” With Maunsel White, he patented (1901) the invention of a process to make high-speed tool steel—revolutionary because it enabled machining at higher cutting speeds.
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Science Quotes by Frederick W. Taylor (1 quote)
We can see our forests vanishing, our water-powers going to waste, our soil being carried by floods into the sea; and the end of our coal and our iron is in sight. But our larger wastes of human effort, which go on every day through such of our acts as are blundering, ill-directed, or inefficient, … are less visible, less tangible, and are but vaguely appreciated.
— Frederick W. Taylor
In The Principles of Scientific Management (1911), 5.
See also:
- 20 Mar - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Taylor's birth.
- High Speed Steel - by H.W. Rushmer, from American Machinist (1903).
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
