Taylor was born in 1856 to a Quaker family in Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Taylor's … See more

Taylor was a mechanical engineer who sought to improve industrial efficiency. He is regarded as the father of scientific management, and was one of the first management consultants and director of a famous firm… See more

• Carl G. Barth helped Taylor to develop speed-and-feed-calculating slide rules to a previously unknown level of usefulness. Similar aids are still used in machine shops today. Barth became an early consultant on scientific m… See more

1. ^ New York Times, March 22, 1915, p. 9.
2. ^ Wall Street Journal, June 13, 1997, p. A17.
3. ^ Bedeian & Wren, Winter 2001, pp. 221–225. … See more

• Aitken, Hugh George Jeffrey (1960). Taylorism at Watertown Arsenal – Scientific Management in Action, 1908–1915 (see Watertown Arsenal). Harvard University Press – via Internet Archive.
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