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Taylor, Frederick Winslowr
| (1856-1915), U.S. mechanical engineer and inventor, ASME's 25th president (1906-07), is known best for his development of scientific management and its worldwide influence. Though his system provoked opposition, it helped to rationalize production, and its impact on mass-production techniques is indisputable. An alumni of Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey, he also had more than 40 patents and made significant advances in high-speed steel development. In 1899, he developed (with Maunsel White) the Taylor-White process for heat-treating high-speed tool steels, which increased cutting capacities up to 300 percent. Even in retirement, he continued his efforts as a reformer in industrial management. In 1912 he testified before the U.S. House of Representatives as they investigated various systems of shop management. He was born March 20, 1856, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and died March 21, 1915, Philadelphia. |
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