Applied Motion Study
A Collection Method to industrial Preparedness

156 APPLIED MOTION STUDY that they would have to go through life in a crip- pled condition. Robert Thurston Kent, who presented the paper, said: Last August I spent a day at Mr. Gilbreth’s laboratory and saw what he had de- veloped in the four years since I was associated with him, and Mr. Gilbreth converted me to a number of things that I believed were absolutely impossible two or three years ago, and I would suggest that all who are skeptical as to the value of the moving pictures of stereoscopic photo- graphs and the three dimensions visit Mr. Gil- breth’s laboratory, where they will learn a great deal. The problem of efficiency or scientific manage- ment is to point out the job at which a man is a first-class man and put him in it. Mr. Gilbreth has a standard method of tabulat- ing. He lays out a chart divided into different groups, as explained in his paper — the head group, the different arm groups, etc., subdividing them into the forearm, the hand, thumb, and so on. By means of his photographs he finds out the relevant amount of time each member of the body is employed on a given job; he plots them