Applied Motion Study
A Collection Method to industrial Preparedness

MOTION STUDY AND TIME STUDY 65 in the operations were placed, and to record the time taken in moving from one position to an- other by one method, as related to the time taken in moving from the same first to the same second position by another method.1 Our intensive study of bricklaying, which grew out of an ap- preciation of the unique history, present practice and doubtful future of this trade, led us to a more intensive study of the problems of motion and time study in general.2 Bricklaying will al- ways be the most interesting of all examples to us, for one reason, among others, that it was the first trade to use the principle of duplicate, inter- changeable parts system of construction; had had six thousand known years of practice in all coun- tries; and was, therefore, a comparatively fin- ished art, but not a science, when we undertook to change it by means of motion study. Fortunately, we are now able to use the motion picture camera with our speed clock, and other accessories, as a device for recording elements of motion and their corresponding times, simultane- i See “ Motion Study,” D. Van Nostrand Co., New York City. 2 See “Bricklaying System,” Myron C. Clark Publishing Co., Chicago.