Applied Motion Study
A Collection Method to industrial Preparedness

151 APPLIED MOTION STUDY opinion, it is most emphatically so, and I think we all owe Mr. Gilbreth thanks that he raised this question in our own Society. The case of the crippled soldier is nothing but using the triple expansion human body as a com- pound, or something less than that, as it were, and therefore it is a problem of engineering, and of the works manager to adapt these conditions, or the men to the conditions, so that they will be useful. It is not so much the question of the selection of the man for the particular work, as the adaptation of the available man to the work which is to be done, whether the man is crippled or not. As to the instruments devised by Mr. Gilbreth, I have watched and studied them in actual use, in the New England Butt Co.’s laboratory, although the details were too complicated to be explained in a short talk. The point of importance is that the motion shall be studied in order to save the waste motions and find out in what industrial processes certain limbs and certain parts of the body, certain muscles, are used. In a factory where wearing apparel is sewn, the legs are absolutely unnecessary, as the ma-