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Albert W. Whitney, “The Faults and Virtues of Standardization,” New York Times, September 2, 1923, p. XX10.\n\n9. “Standardization,” Chicago Defender, March 29, 1913, p. 2.\n\n10. The example of a charismatic religious movement seeking to revive its flagging flock by finding more standardized methods of conversion would give Weber food for thought.\n\n11. “Urges Standardization of Evangelism Methods,” Boston Daily Globe, January 8, 1918, p. 6.\n\n12. “Standardization of Everything,” San Francisco Chronicle, May 30, 1920, p. W2.\n\n13. The AESC coordinated the standardizing activities of government, industry, and professional organizations, in efect serving as a national clearing house for standards.\n\n14. “What Others Think about It: Problems in Standardization,” Los Angeles Times, October 9, 1930, p. A4.\n\n15. “Standardization and Improvement,” San Francisco Chronicle, November 7, 1906, p. 6.\n\n16. “Says Nation Sufers from Scientific Fads: Standardization Is Killing Common Sense and Individuality,” New York Times, October 19, 1924, p. 21; William S. Packer, “Declares Standardization Bedevils Our Life,” Boston Daily Globe, January 26, 1931, p. 13; “Fleming Asks Originality in Architecture: Expert Deplores Trend to Standardization as Foe of Beauty,” Washington Post, July 22, 1934, p. R6. For ironic comment, see “Let Standardization Thrive!,” New York Times, January 17, 1922, p. 13.\n\n17. “Standardization,” Los Angeles Times, January 22, 1922, p. V3.\n\n18. Llewelyn Powys, “Dark Age of the Literary Essay,” New York Times, June 1, 1924, p. BR7.\n\n19. John Barry, “Clever Men Are the Aids of Curley at the State House,” Boston Daily Globe, February 24, 1935, p. A30.\n\n20. “The Blight of Standardization,” Washington Post, June 7, 1925, p. E1.\n\n21. Thomas L. Masson, “Life as It Is: Standardization,” Boston Daily Globe, December 26, 1923, p. 13.\n\n22. James R. Beniger takes the Chandler argument a step further. Taking his cue from a cybernetic theory, Beniger (1986) sees standardization as one element of a broad efort to mobilize information to control the disastrous consequences of an unprecedented speed up of production and distribution caused by new technologies that appeared in the nineteenth century in transportation and manufacturing.\n\n23. The Bureau of Standards was created by act of Congress on March 3, 1901. Prior to 1901, a bureau of standards had existed, but in a very specialized capacity, as a small branch of the coast and geodetic survey, which dealt exclusively with fixing standards of length, mass, and time. The new, enlarged bureau was initially set up as a part of the Treasury Department (the Treasury had previously housed the Ofice of Weights and Measurements, founded in 1832, which was superseded by the new bureau). It was moved to the Department of Commerce and Labor when that department was created in 1904 and stayed a part of the Commerce Department when the Department of Labor was created in 1913. The bureau had two branches, one that undertook scientific and technical research and conducted product testing, the other concerned with commercial standardization. In addition to its testing activities, the research branch of the bureau invented entirely new products and manufacturing processes. For example, it created a radio-beacon system to guide aircraft, developed a new process for chromium plating, created stronger paper for use in currency and improved the design and construction of tires (Cochrane 1966; Silbur 1983; N. D. Katz 1977; see also Milton E. Ailes, “National Bureau of Standards,” Washington Post, January 10, 1921, p. 7).\n\n304\n\nNotes to Pages 154–158","previous_page":303,"next_page":305}