1980.0785.109 Chronocyclegraph of a woman folding handkerchiefs on a wood table. A female figure is partially visible in the background.
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content: Category: handkerchief folding study
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content: Copy negative: 99-30001
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content: Gilbreth image: 618-G71-D
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content: Information on photo: 618-G71-D
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content: Job name: Herrmann-Aukam Co.
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content: Job number: 618
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content: Original caption: 618-G71-D"Wrong motions of an inexperienced worker folding cloth in a textile factory. This picture shows intermittent electric lights with the filament and the current so proportioned that the light brightens quickly and dies out slowly. This gives us a photograph of time in that the number of flashes per second is known. Moreover, the point on the spot shows the direction of the motion. It is very easy to check up the efficiency of the motions in this way."

"Note that #618-G71-B shows an inexperienced girl: also #618-G71-C and #618-G71-D. While #618-G69-2 and #618-G69-3 show girls with much greater experience. And it is here that our method is important; in that, in the scientific selection of the worker, we do not separate the workers into the two classes of those who are efficient and those who are not efficient, until we have determined the difference in their motions and have given the worker time to correct this difference. The difference show in these photographs is that the inexperienced worker does not even make curves; the lines are jerky, both in deviating from a straigth or evenly curved line, or are jerky as to time. This latter can be told by the difference in spacing between the spots in any one line." (Purdue captions).
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content: Related captions: 618-G71-A Shows an operator making more than 150 motions in folding one piece of cloth that should be done in 16 motions.

[See 618-G68-4]618-G71-B Shows the wrong motions of an inexperienced worker folding pieces of cloth in a textile factory.Left side view of chronocyclegraph of motions of girl folding handkerchief and before she was taught. Note that this has all the indications of awkwardness and lack of training, such as lack of smooth curves and uneven positive and negative acceleration of speed of motions.618-G71-C Shows an untrained worker folding material. This picture shows a cyclegraph where there is an ideal illustration of awkwardness, clumsiness, mental hesitation and indecision at each turning point of the cycle.This picture shows a cyclegraph where there is an ideal illustration of awkwardness, clumsiness, mental hesitation and indecision at each turning point of the cycle.Shows an operator making more than 150 motions in folding one of these pieces of cloth. The operator was an expert in this type of folding.
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content: Location of subject: South River NJ or Lebanon, PA
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content: Subject names: Milanda?
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Perkins, James Secor
label: Collection Creator
content: Gilbreth, Frank Bunker, 1868-1924
label: Collection Creator
content: Gilbreth, Lillian Moller, 1878-1972
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content: Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Collection
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content: Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Collection / Series 5: Stereograph Cards
unitdate: label: Date
content: c. Fall 1913
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials