Object Details
Description
This is a set of coloured pencils owned by Marvin Mundel. The package has yellow background with blue, red, green and white. "Colour Pencils" is in large blue lettering diagonally across the front. Inside the set of pencils slide out, there are 24 slots for the pencils. Five pencils are missing. The pencils are all sharpened and vary in size.
Dr Marvin Mundel was a pioneer in the field of industrial engineering, and the author of multiple books and articles. He received the Society for the Advancement of Management's Gilbreth Medal in 1953 and the Institute of Industrial Engineers' Gilbreth Award in 1982.
He organised his own industrial engineering consultant firm and worked on projects for the U.S. Government including the Veteran's Administration and the Social Security Administration. He was among the first to export American management techniques to Japan, beginning in the late 1950s.
From 1953 to 1963, Mundel conducted time and motion studies at various manufacturing companies and developed techniques to measure work units. His most important contribution to the field of time and motion study was the development of memomotion, a stop-action filming technique used to determine time standards for work tasks.
He married Takako S. Mundel (the donor), a Japanese woman who had survived the August 9, 1945 bombing of Nagasaki. For the next three years, he traveled between the United States and Japan. They later moved to the United States, where he was recruited by President Kennedy to work in the White House.
Location
Currently not on view
Credit Line
Takako S. Mundel
ID Number
1999.0032.04
accession number
1999.0032
catalog number
1999.0032.04
Object Name
Colored Pencils, Set
Measurements
overall: 7 x 8.375;
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Data Source
National Museum of American History
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_880972