318949.0496 Chronocyclgraph of female typing (Anna Gold).
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content: Card Number: 66
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content: Category: typing study
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content: Collection: NMAH
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content: Copy negative: 93-5075
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content: Gilbreth image: GL1707
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content: Information in photo: 1707
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content: Job name: Remington Typewriter, Ilion New York
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content: Original caption: "GL-1707 Chronocyclegraph of Miss Gold's motions inserting a new sheet of paper a in Remington Machine. In this work she has beaten all other contestants having taken out a finished sheet of paper and put in a new sheet in less than two seconds."
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content: Related captions: GL-1699A These show two very interesting studies of putting the paper into the typewriter after the previous sheet has been completely written. We have standardized this now down to the point where it requires less than two seconds from the time the last key is struck on the previous sheet before the first key is struck on the first line of the following sheet. This work previously took about five seconds before we motion studied the conditions.GL-1715 Chronocyclegraph studies of Anna Gold, Champion of America, 1916. Note that the light is on her head, right elbow and each forefinger. Notice how little the head and the elbow move.GL-1630 Miss Anna Gold in foreground, and Miss H. Stollnitz in background in our laboratory in Providence. Five months after this picture was taken Miss Anna Gold won the Championship of American Amateur Class, and Miss Stollnitz won second prize Amateur Championship of America 1916,- and one month later Miss Stollnitz won the International Championship, Amateur Class, 1916. Miss Stollnitz record of 147 words gross per minute is the record of the world, exceeding all other records, professional and otherwise, 5 words per minute. Her net record is 137 words per minute, and equals the highest record ever made by a professional, altho she was in the amateur class
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content: Location of subject: Gilbreth Motion Study Laboratory, Providence RI
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content: Subject names: Anna Gold
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content: Perkins, James Secor
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content: Gilbreth, Frank Bunker, 1868-1924
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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 2: Glass Stereo Slides (Positive) / 318949.0381 to 318949.0620
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content: 1916
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content: Box 5
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
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content: Negatives