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Activity
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Progress: The Meaning of the Machine: Human Machines

For Students 9th - 10th
An excerpt from efficiency expert Frederick Winslow Taylor's The Principles of Scientific Management that describes how to make a human work like a machine; painter Thomas Anshutz's The Ironworkers' Noontime that suggests the cost of...
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Activity
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Progress: The Meaning of the Machine: The New Housekeeping

For Students 9th - 10th
An essay that urges women to bring the principles of scientific management found within industrial America into the home and housework.
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Handout
PBS

Pbs: Ford Installs First Moving Assembly Line

For Students 9th - 10th
A look at the history of the assembly line discusses how the use of this tool was initiated by Henry Ford in his Automobile plant.
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Handout
PBS

Pbs: Who Made America?: Innovators: Frederick Winslow Taylor

For Students 9th - 10th
One-page profile of influential innovator, Frederick Winslow Taylor, whose vision and ideas devised the system of scientific management that helped to increase performance in the workplace.
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Article
Other

University of St. Francis: Frederick Winslow Taylor

For Students 9th - 10th
Biography of Frederick Winslow Taylor that includes information about his childhood as well as his adult accomplishments.
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Website
Other

Scientific Management: Frederick Winslow Taylor

For Students 9th - 10th
Good biography of Frederick Taylor, author of "The Principles of Scientific Management." Includes links to other sites and great pictures.