Applied Motion Study
A Collection Method to industrial Preparedness

CHRONOCYCLEGRAPH DEVICES 75 carvings and other records of their industrial practice. There was, unfortunately, in those times little or no appreciation of the humani- tarian side, of the need for conserving the worker for his own happiness and for the ultimate good of the race or the country. The practice was to extract every ounce of effort from the worker in the shortest amount of time possible, taking little account of the amount that the worker’s life was shortened by the process. With the ages has come an appreciation of the greater benefit, not only to the individuals in society, but to society as a whole, to be derived by prolonging the life of the worker and increasing the number of hap- piness minutes that he enjoys. With the spread and growth of the movement for conserving ma- terial things, such as forests, mines and other nat- ural resources, and the utilisation of the sources of energy, such as water power, has come an ap- preciation of the field for conservation of the human element. With the growth of the science of management, and the emphasis laid on motion study and fatigue study, has come an apprecia- tion of the methods that may best be used to ef- fect this conservation. Now, with the enormous