context: The beginnings of Industrial Engineering can be traced from several different sources. Frederick Winslow Taylor is often established as the father of Industrial Engineering even though all his ideas are not original. Some previous treatises may have influenced the development of Industrial Engineering such as Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations treatise, published in 1776; Thomas Malthus's Essay on Population was published in 1798; David Ricardo's Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, published in 1817; and the Principles of Political Economy by John Stuart Mill, published in 1848. All of this work inspired an explanation of the Classical Liberal understanding of the success and limitations of the Industrial Revolution. Adam Smith was a famous economist of his day. "Economic Science" is a phrase to describe this field in England before America's industrialization emerged.
question: Who is the father of industrial engineering?
answers.text: Frederick Winslow Taylor