Frederick Taylor
Full name: Frederick Winslow Taylor
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| Bio | Although Taylor passed the entrance examination for Harvard College, failing eyesight meant that he could not take up his place. Instead, in 1874, he took the unusual step for someone of his upper-class, almost aristocratic, background of becoming an apprentice patternmaker and machinist at the Enterprise Hydraulic Works. Following his apprenticeship, Taylor took up an unskilled job at the Midvale Steel Works in 1878, and after several different jobs and a master's degree in mechanical engineering he was appointed chief engineer there. In 1890 he became general manager of Manufacturing Investment Company (MIC), eventually becoming an independent consulting engineer to management. In 1881 Taylor won the doubles championships of the United States Lawn Tennis Association and a year later the doubles in the Young American C.C. Lawn Tennis Tournament. Later in his career he developed a passion for golf, and in keeping with his love of experiment, he attempted to make a putting green that was reliant on water below the surface rather than on natural rainfall. By the time of his death Taylor's experiments had led to him filing at least fifty patents, and had made him an extremely wealthy man. (Source: British Library, Management and Business Studies Portal) |
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