Applied Motion Study
A Collection Method to industrial Preparedness

INTRODUCTION xi to repeat a task should not mean monotony. Let a task be fully studied, let all its possibilities be brought into view, and the operator will be too keenly interested to complain of “ monotony.” This is a book written from the heart as well as from the brain. Its good will is as evident as its good sense. Frank B. Gilbreth is a versa- tile Engineer, an untiring observer, an ingenious inventor, an economist to the tips of his fingers: first and chiefly he is a man. To his wife, co-au- thor with him, this book owes much. Every page has taken form with the aid and counsel of Mrs. Gilbreth, whose “ Psychology of Management ” is a golden gift to industrial philosophy. And thus, by viewing their facts from two distinct angles we learn how vital phases of industrial economy present themselves to a man and to a woman who are among the acutest investigators of our time. George Iles. New York, June 14, 1917.