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Show a TH PRINCIPLE O SCIENTIFI MANAGEMEN of turning the crank of a winch from which weights were suspended and others who were engaged in walking, running, and liftin However, the records of these investigaweights in various ways tions were so meager that no law of any value could be deduce We therefore started a series of experiments of our own from them Two first-class laborers were selected, men who had proved themselves to be physically powerful and who were also good stead workers Thes me wer pai doubl wage durin th experi ments, and were told that they must work to the best of their abilit at all times, and that we should make certain tests with them fro time to time to find whether they were "soldiering"' or not, and tha the moment either one, of them started to try to deceive us he woul They worked to the best of their ability throughbe discharged out the time that they were being observed Now it must be clearly understood that in these experlments w were not trying to find the maximum work that a man could d on a short spurt or for a few days, but that our endeavor was t learn what really constituted a full day's work for a first-class man the best day's work that a ma could properly do, year in and yea These men were given all kinds o out, and still thrive under tasks, which were carried out each day under the close observatio of the young college man who was conducting the experiments and who at the same time noted with a stop-watch the proper tim Every elemen for all of the motions that were made by the men in any way connected wit the work which we believed could hav a bearing on the result was carefully studied and recorded. What w hoped ultimately to determine was what fraction of a horse-powe a man was able to exert, that is, how many foot-pounds of work man could do in a day After completing this series of experiments, therefore, each man' work for each day was translated into foot-pounds of energy, an to our surprise we found that there was no constant or uniform relation between the foot-pounds of energy which the man exerted durin a day and the tiring effect of his work On some kinds of work th man would be tired out when doing perhaps not more than oneeighth of a horse-power, while in others he would be tired to no greate extent by doing half a horse-power of work We failed, therefore to find any law which was an accurate guide to the maximum day' work for a first-class workman A large amount of very valuable data had been obtained, whic enabled us to know for many kinds of labor, what was a proper day' work It did not see wise however at this time to spen an |