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F.A. Halsey
Frederick Arthur Halsey (July 12, 1856 – October 20, 1935) was an American mechanical engineer and economist, who was long-time editor of the ''American Machinist'' magazine, and particularly known for his 1891 article, entitled "The premium plan of paying for labor."Clawson, Dan. ''Bureaucracy and the labor process: The transformation of US industry, 1860-1920.'' New York: Monthly Review Press, 1980. Biography Halsey was born in Unadilla, New York to the physician Gaius Leonard Halsey, and Juliet Cartington Halsey. He was the younger brother of Francis Whiting Halsey (1851–1919), who became a noted American journalist, editor and historian. At the age of 22 in 1878 Frederick graduated from Cornell University with a degree in mechanical engineering. Halsey was editor of the ''American Machinist''. In his famous 1891 paper "The Premium Plan of Paying for Labor," he argued "against piecework payment and profit-sharing, and proposing an incentive wage system with an hourly wage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Machinist
The ''American Machinist'' is an American trade magazine of the international machine industry, machinery industries and most especially their machining aspects. Published since 1877, it was a McGraw-Hill title for over a century before becoming a Penton (professional information services), Penton title in 1988. In 2013 it transitioned from combined print/online publication to online-only. History The journal was founded as a monthly magazine in November 1877"American Machinist," in International Magazine Co., ''Periodicals,'' vol. 1, no. 1 (October–December 1917), pg. 7. by Horace B. Miller and Jackson Bailey at 96 Fulton Street in New York City. The publication moved to a weekly publication schedule in July 1879. Fred H. Colvin explained: In 1888, the editors decided to launch another title, specific to the rail transport, railroading industry, called ''Locomotive Engineer''. They asked Colvin's father, Henry F. Colvin, to recommend someone to become the new title's editor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sterling Bunnell
Charles Sterling Bunnell (December 4, 1901 – April 23, 1988), was an American banker. Following graduation from Yale University in 1924, Bunnell began his career at the First National City Bank of New York where he held the positions of Senior VP and Chairman of the Credit Policy Committee. At the onset of World War II he was present at the Berlin, Germany office of the bank and later he was a Director of Citibank. Bunnell also was a Director of BASF Colors & Chemicals, the Inspiration Consolidated Copper Company a division of BP and of the Wheeling Steel Corporation, a division of SeverStal. Bunnell was a member of Scroll and Key and Delta Kappa Epsilon at Yale and later the Council on Foreign Relations and the National Voluntary Credit Restraint Committee of the Federal Reserve. Through his mother, Bunnell is the grandson of Charles Gilbert Peterson and great grandson of Gilbert Peterson, both contractors from Lockport, New York and through his father is the nephew of Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1856 Births
Events January–March * January 8 – Borax deposits are discovered in large quantities by John Veatch in California. * January 23 – American paddle steamer SS ''Pacific'' leaves Liverpool (England) for a transatlantic voyage on which she will be lost with all 186 on board. * January 24 – U.S. President Franklin Pierce declares the new Free-State Topeka government in "Bleeding Kansas" to be in rebellion. * January 26 – First Battle of Seattle: Marines from the suppress an indigenous uprising, in response to Governor Stevens' declaration of a "war of extermination" on Native communities. * January 29 ** The 223-mile North Carolina Railroad is completed from Goldsboro through Raleigh and Salisbury to Charlotte. ** Queen Victoria institutes the Victoria Cross as a British military decoration. * February ** The Tintic War breaks out in Utah. ** The National Dress Reform Association is founded in the United States to promote "rational" dress for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Towne, Henry Robinson
Henry Robinson Towne (August 24, 1844 – October 15, 1924) was an American mechanical engineer and businessman, known as an early systematizer of management. He donated over 2 million dollars to philanthropy at his death, in 1924. Biography Towne was born in Philadelphia in 1844 to John Henry and Maria (Tevis) T. Towne. He attended the University of Pennsylvania from 1861 to 1862, where he was a member of St. Anthony Hall, but did not complete a degree. The university later awarded him an honorary master's degree. Early career Following his year of college, Towne found work as a draftsman at the Port Richmond Iron Works, which was owned by I. P. Morris, Towne & Co. In 1863, Towne was put in charge of repair work for the union gunboat ''Massachusetts''. During 1864-1866, Towne was placed in charge of erecting engines in monitors for the United States Navy. After the war, Towne went to Paris and studied physics at the Sorbonne. When he returned, he found employment with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Payroll
A payroll is the list of employees of some company that is entitled to receive payments as well as other work benefits and the amounts that each should receive. Along with the amounts that each employee should receive for time worked or tasks performed, payroll can also refer to a company's records of payments that were previously made to employees, including salaries and wages, bonuses, and withheld taxes, or the company's department that deals with compensation. A company may handle all aspects of the payroll process in-house or can outsource aspects to a payroll processing company. Payroll in the U.S. is subject to federal, state and local regulations including employee exemptions, record keeping, and tax requirements. Frequency Companies typically process payroll at regular intervals. This interval varies from company to company and may differ within the company for different types of employee. According to research conducted in February 2022 by the U.S. Department of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Time Book
A time book is a mostly outdated accounting record, that registered the hours worked by employees in a certain organization in a certain period. These records usually contain names of employees, type of work, hours worked, and sometimes wages paid. In the 19th and early 20th century time books were separate held records. In those days time books were held by company clerks or foremen or specialized timekeepers. These time books were used by the bookkeeper to determine the wages to be paid. The data was used in financial accounting to determine the weekly, monthly and annual labour costs, and in cost accounting to determine the cost price. Late 19th century additional time cards came in use to register labour hours. Nowadays the time book can be a part of an integrated payroll system, or cost accounting system. Those systems can contain registers that describe the labour time spend to produce products, but those registers are not regularly called time books, but timesheets. Hist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Production Control
Within supply chain management and manufacturing, production control is the activity of monitoring and controlling any particular production or operation. Production control is often run from a specific control room or operations room. With inventory control and quality control, production control is one of the key functions of operations management. Overview Production control is the activity of monitoring and controlling a large physical facility or physically dispersed service. It is a "set of actions and decision taken during production to regulate output and obtain reasonable assurance that the specification will be met."S. N. Ghosh (ed.) ''Cement and Concrete Science & Technology.'' 1991. p. 419 The American Production and Inventory Control Society, nowadays APICS, defined production control in 1959 as: :''Production control is the task of predicting, planning and scheduling work, taking into account manpower, materials availability and other capacity restrictions, and cost ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Time Ticket, 1891
Time is the continued sequence of existence and events that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future. It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, to compare the duration of events or the intervals between them, and to quantify rates of change of quantities in material reality or in the conscious experience. Time is often referred to as a fourth dimension, along with three spatial dimensions. Time has long been an important subject of study in religion, philosophy, and science, but defining it in a manner applicable to all fields without circularity has consistently eluded scholars. Nevertheless, diverse fields such as business, industry, sports, the sciences, and the performing arts all incorporate some notion of time into their respective measuring systems. 108 pages. Time in physics is operationally defined as "what a clock reads". The physical nature of time is addre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Vangermeersch
Richard G.J. Vangermeersch (born 1940) is an American economist, and Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Rhode Island, particularly known for his ''History of Accounting: An International Encyclopedia,'' edited with Michael Chatfield. Biography Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Vangermeersch attended the North Providence High School. He obtained his BA in accounting from Bryant University, his MA in accounting in 1964 from University of Rhode Island, and his PhD in accounting in 1970 from the University of Florida with a thesis on the history of economics, economic theory and management.Michaela Mooney For 34 years, accounting professor hasn't done it by the numbers'' February 9, 2004. Republished at ''uri.edu/news/releases,'' 2013. Accessed 11.2014. Finally in 1978 he obtained his Certified Management Accountant (CMA). Vangermeersch spend his academic career at the University of Rhode Island, where he started in 1970 as Associate Professor of Accounting. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Chatfield
Michael Chatfield (1930s-2004) was an American economist, accounting historian, and Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the Southern Oregon University, known for his work on the history of accounting and accounting thought, and particularly for his ''History of Accounting: An International Encyclopedia,'' edited with Richard Vangermeersch. Biography Chatfield obtained his BA and MBA from the University of Washington, and his DBA for the University of Oregon in 1966, and his Certified Public Accountant degree in the Los Angeles Chapter in 1968,. After his graduation at the University of Washington Chatfield had started his career in industry at the Burroughs Corporation.''The Arthur Andersen Chronicle,'' Vol. 29 (1968), p. 40. After obtaining his Doctor of Business Administration in 1966 he joined the University of California, where he was appointed Assistant Professor of Accounting, and in 1970 Professor of Accounting. After a long period at the University of California he moved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Winslow Taylor
Frederick Winslow Taylor (March 20, 1856 – March 21, 1915) was an American mechanical engineer. He was widely known for his methods to improve industrial efficiency. He was one of the first management consultants. In 1909, Taylor summed up his efficiency techniques in his book ''The Principles of Scientific Management'' which, in 2001, Fellows of the Academy of Management voted the most influential management book of the twentieth century. His pioneering work in applying engineering principles to the work done on the factory floor was instrumental in the creation and development of the branch of engineering that is now known as industrial engineering. Taylor made his name, and was most proud of his work, in scientific management; however, he made his fortune patenting steel-process improvements. As a result, scientific management is sometimes referred to as ''Taylorism''. Biography Taylor was born in 1856 to a Quaker family in Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Taylor's f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oberlin Smith
Oberlin Smith (March 22, 1840 – July 19, 1926) was an American engineer who published one of the earliest works dealing with magnetic recording in 1888. Biography He was born on March 22, 1840, in Cincinnati, Ohio, to George R. and Salome (Kemp) Smith. He started a small machine shop in Bridgeton, New Jersey, where he lived most of his life, which became known as the Ferracute Machine Company in 1877. For the entire existence of the company he was the president and chief engineer. He died on July 19, 1926, in New Jersey. Magnetic recording On September 8, 1888, Smith published a short note entitled "Some Possible Forms of the Phonograph" in the British journal ''Electrical World'', where he suggested (probably for the first time) the use of permanent magnetic impressions for the recording of sound.Smith, Oberlin (1888 September 8"Some possible forms of phonograph,"''The Electrical World'', 12 (10) : 116–117. Smith suggested using cotton or silk thread, into which steel dus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
