Marvin E. Mundel Stopwatch
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content: This is a Silver plated stopwatch with leather strap tied to top, owned by Marvin Mundel. The second hands are a metallic blue color and the numbers are black 10-100. In small black print on the face of the watch: "CROTON / SWISS." There is a wind up top and a metal piece/ switch to the top right proper side to stop the time. The back panel opens, there is a hinge on the bottom and an "indentation" in the metal on the top to open the panel.
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content: Dr Marvin Mundel was a pioneer in the field of industrial engineering, and the author of multiple books and articles. He received the Society for the Advancement of Management's Gilbreth Medal in 1953 and the Institute of Industrial Engineers' Gilbreth Award in 1982.
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content: He organised his own industrial engineering consultant firm and worked on projects for the U.S. Government including the Veteran's Administration and the Social Security Administration. He was among the first to export American management techniques to Japan, beginning in the late 1950s.
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content: From 1953 to 1963, Mundel conducted time and motion studies at various manufacturing companies and developed techniques to measure work units. His most important contribution to the field of time and motion study was the development of memomotion, a stop-action filming technique used to determine time standards for work tasks.
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content: He married Takako S. Mundel (the donor), a Japanese woman who had survived the August 9, 1945 bombing of Nagasaki. For the next three years, he traveled between the United States and Japan. They later moved to the United States, where he was recruited by President Kennedy to work in the White House.
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content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanical and Civil Engineering
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content: Takako S. Mundel
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content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1999.0032.03
label: accession number
content: 1999.0032
label: catalog number
content: 1999.0032.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Stopwatch
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2.5 x 1.875;