Gallery›Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library›A Visit To a Human Engineering Laboratory. This young lady is being timed [illegible] blocks together as instructed at the Human Engineering Laboratory at Stevens Institute of Technology. This is a measure of her aptitude for visualizing three-dimensional structure - an aptitude in which surgeons, engineers, sculptors and architects score high, but in which sales people, for instance, score low. Like other aptitudes which the Laborator[y] [illegible] [a]ble to measure, this is an inherent unacquirable characteristic.
Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library
A Visit To a Human Engineering Laboratory. This young lady is being timed [illegible] blocks together as instructed at the Human Engineering Laboratory at Stevens Institute of Technology. This is a measure of her aptitude for visualizing three-dimensional structure - an aptitude in which surgeons, engineers, sculptors and architects score high, but in which sales people, for instance, score low. Like other aptitudes which the Laborator[y] [illegible] [a]ble to measure, this is an inherent unacquirable characteristic.
Wide World Photos, Inc. · [ca. September 1938]
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