Artful Making: What Managers Need to Know About How Artists Work

Exposition. Although placed far from the center of the exposi-

tion’s activities, the Bethlehem lathe, cutting steel at unheard-

of speeds, churning out chips blue with heat from which you

could light a cigarette, stole the show.

The historically most important consequences of Taylor-

White steel were not visible in the sensational demonstrations

at the 1900 Paris Exposition. The new cutting tools rendered

the mysteries of the past, the worker’s advantage, obsolete.

None of the craft wisdom passed along the centuries from mas-

ter to apprentice applied to these new steels. This meant that

Taylor had a free hand to apply his analytic systems every-

where ...