Applied Motion Study
A Collection Method to industrial Preparedness

X INTRODUCTION Gilbreth motion-pictures make it easy to repeat that practice anywhere and at any time. This most fertile means of record and of teach- ing enters the world of industry at an opportune moment. War to-day is destroying wealth at a rate beyond computation. National debts are mounting billion upon billion, entailing burdens of taxation such as mankind never faced before. Mr. Gilbreth meets this dire emergency with a readily applied method of increasing the results of toil, of reducing all waste of human exertion to its minimum. Not the least telling branch of his activity is in extending aid and comfort to maimed soldiers. He opens a door of hope, be- cause a door of usefulness, to the thousands of brave men who have lost their limbs, their sight, or their hearing, on fields of battle. His pages teem with suggestive facts: take, for example, his discovery that the best way to perform a task unites the methods of several dex- terous and original operators. Again we are shown that wisdom rests not even with the most gifted man, but appears only when men of the rarest ability join hands. Another point: our author has found that learners should strive first for Quickness; when speed is acquired they can best pass to good quality in their work. The levy paid for Dawdling is plainly beyond all esti- mate. A third point: Mr. Gilbreth argues that