Frederick Winslow Taylor / by H. L. Gantt

              realized, but cannot be until all the other problems entering into machine shop management have been given the same kind of study as has been given the cutting of metals.

The least heard of, but, to my mind, his most daring feat, was the design of the great hammer of the Midvale Steel Co. This hammer was kept in alignment by the elasticity of its parts, which yielded to the force of a foul blow and returned exactly to their former position. Dependence upon the principle of elasticity enabled him to build a hammer which, for its weight, had far greater power than any other hammer that had ever been built. All previous hammers of this class had been designed to keep their alignment by great mass and stiffness, and it took a bold man to throw precedent aside when the stake was such a large one.

Moreover, Mr. Taylor repudiated the theory that large bodies must move slowly, which had apparently been accepted by previous designers of large steam hammers, for few, if any had been supplied with top steam. He recognized the fact that large bodies could be made to move as rapidly as small ones, if only