Show changes in industry speeded up by science many years ago lord kelvin said that in order to understand anything one must measure it industry on the whole was rather slow to learn the lesson but today there is a new standard of certainty based on scientific measurement which has invaded every branch of the industrial and engineering field to take a few examples from the railways the comfortable riding of rail coaches the sources of mojse the movement of a wheel along the rail the vertical movements of the rails when under load and the resistance si of materials to wear these are no longer left to personal impressions pres which are so liable to error and leave no record for subsequent comparison measurement provides a new basis for progress the sovereignty of man lieth hid in knowledge there is every reason to be proud of the achievements of this country in the application of science to the needs of the today writes sir harold hartley in technology review americans were the first to realize for their own vast homogeneous internal market the immense potentia potentialities litie s of mechanized production production which was made possible by scientific control and which has done so much in so many ways to diversify the pattern of life for this generation era tion but in our technical enthusiasm we must not forgit forget that the human problems of management present much more difficulty th than an the choosing and working of inanimate material |