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Morris Llewellyn Cooke : ウィキペディア英語版 | Morris Llewellyn Cooke
Morris Llewellyn Cooke (May 11, 1872- March 5, 1960) was an influential American engineer, best known for his work on Scientific Management〔Wrege, Charles D., and Anne Marie Stotka. "Cooke creates a classic: the story behind FW Taylor's principles of scientific management." ''Academy of Management Review'' 3.4 (1978): 736-749.〕 and Rural Electrification.〔Cooke, Morris Llewellyn. "The Early Days of the Rural Electrification Idea: 1914-1936." ''The American Political Science Review'' 42.3 (1948): 431-447.〕〔Nye, David. ''Electrifying America: Social meanings of a new technology''. MIT press, 1990.〕 == Biography == Born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania as one of eight children to William Harvey Cooke and Elizabeth Richmond Marsden, Cooke attended Lehigh University in 1895 and obtained his degree in Mechanical Engineering. After Cooke had completed college and earned his degree from Lehigh University in Mechanical Engineering he went into the work force to become a machinist. Cooke served as the director of the Rural Electrification Administration from May 1935 through March 1937. In March 1937, Cooke resigned and was succeeded by John Carmody. In 1940 Cooke became a technical consultant for the Office of Production Management, where he led an American technical mission to Brazil. In 1943 headed the War Labor Board panel to mediate a coal miners' strike. In the year 1946-1947 he was a member of a committee "jump, jump, jump" to survey the patent system. In 1950 President Harry S. Truman appointed Cooke chairman of the Water Resources Policy Commission Cooke was recognized for his work on obtaining inexpensive electricity for residential use, facilitating better labor-management relations, and the conservation of land and water resources. As he wrote in 1913, "We shall never fully realize . . . the dreams of democracy until the principles of scientific management have permeated every nook and cranny of the working world."〔Business Week, 18 Apr. 1964, p. 132〕
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