Clipboard with Stopwatch
date: label: date made
content: ca 1950s
label: date made
content: 1940s - 1950s
notes: label: Description
content: Among the most frequently used and most controversial tools for measuring work was the stopwatch. Stopwatches attached to clipboards, like this one from Georgia Tech, were used to teach engineering students how to do timed work measurement studies. A time-study worksheet is attached to the clipboard.
label: Description
content: Measuring the amount of time a particular work task took preoccupied managers at the turn of the 20th century. Such measurements became the cornerstone of the new profession of industrial engineering and dominated the analysis of manufacturing work until the 1960s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanisms
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content: Measuring & Mapping
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Industrial & Systems Engineering
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1997.0160.03
label: accession number
content: 1997.0160
label: catalog number
content: 1997.0160.03.1
objectType: label: Object Name
content: clipboard with stopwatch
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 3/8 in x 13 in x 1 3/4 in; 36.5125 cm x 33.02 cm x 4.445 cm