Friday, November 30, 2012

1 December Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management


1913 -  The continuous moving assembly line was introduced by Ford in his Highland Park plant, Detroit, Michigan. The factory was capable of delivering a car every 2-min 38-sec and the chassis was pushed from station to station.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/dt13as.html
Ford took the support of Frederick Taylor, the creator of "scientific management," to do time and motion studies to determine the exact speed at which the work should proceed and the exact motions workers should use to accomplish their tasks.


1977, the isolation of the bacterium Legionella pneumophila that was the cause of Legionnaire's Disease, was described in a scientific paper published in The New England Journal of Medicine by scientists at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia,


Birthdays

http://www.famouswhy.com/Born_Today/Month/12.html


Management Revision

Strategies, Policies, and Planning Premises - Review Notes

Decision Making - Review Notes

Knowledge History of the Day - Index for the Year

Management Theory Review Blog
Management Knowledge Center
Engineering and Technology Knowledge Center
Science Knowledge Center
Social Science Knowledge Center

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