Frederick Taylor was a great inventor and a thinker. He was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania in 1856. When he grew up he became "foreman of the steel plant and applied himself to studies in the measurment of industrial productivity." He loved working with steel and he was a great workman. He tried to think up ways to preform tasks in a shorter amount of time.
Taylor really liked thinking of new management ways. He was called "the father of scientific management." Encyclopedia.com says that "his management methods for shops, offices, and industrial plants were successfully introduced in many industries, notably the steel mills." Taylor was a smart man with steel because in 1898 he became joint-discoverer of the Taylor-White process, a method of tempering steel.
I admire Taylor. He was a great inventor and he helped organize the business world. He helped find a way to temper steel. He wrote books and people still read them today. His idea of "scientific and industrial management" helped spark other people into thinking of new ideas. He influenced a lot of people, and he is almost a hero to me. He turned the cutting of metal into a science and discovered a lot about steel.
In 1911 and 1912 Taylor was questioned a length by a special committee of the House of Representatives. By the time 1915 rolled around, Taylor was an old man. He was on a trip and he contracted influenza. He went to a hospital in Philadelphia and died there. He was 59 years old.
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