On 11/29/05, Nicholas Thompson <nickthompson at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Robert,
>
> He of "Cheaper by the Dozen", eh?
>
> > P.S. I've just learned from Wikipedia that Gilbreth - one of the
> proponents
> > of time & motion studies - defined 17 basic hand motions (called
> therbligs)
> > for bricklayers. He was able to reduce the number of hand motions used in
> > laying a brick from 17 therbligs to 5. Hooray for modernism.
Yep, that's him. Record players and language records in every bathroom.
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