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- From: elle@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Ellen Keyne Seebacher)
- Subject: Re: zw{i,a}cky matters
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.210755.12072@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- References: <C03y14.1B9@demon.co.uk> <1992Dec31.175416.17006@Csli.Stanford.EDU> <92366.144938SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 21:07:55 GMT
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- In article <92366.144938SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
- Graydon <SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> writes:
- >A therblig is a 'Gilbreth' spelt backwards, Gilbreth as in 'John Kenneth'.
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- No, no, NO. Gilbreth as in 'Frank', the efficiency expert. The economist
- John Kenneth Gilbraith is not only spelled differently, but also unrelated
- to the matter at hand.
-
- Frank Gilbreth is better known as the focus of the book _Cheaper by
- the Dozen_, written by two of his long-suffering children.
-
- >It is a unit of task; one therblig is a motion taken in the process of
- >accomplishing a task. (for instance, picking up a nail is a therblig,
- >if you're nailing shingles on.)
-
- Efficiency. Not economics.
-
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- Ellen Keyne Seebacher \/ elle@midway.uchicago.edu
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