EARLY

MS/OR
P r e - w o r l d Wa r I I
 ARCHIMEDES
In 212 BC, when the City of Syracuse
employed Archimedes (75 years old
then) to devise means of breaking the
naval siege of the City which was
attacked by the romans.

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 CONTRIBUTIONS OF
ARCHIMEDES
1. Pi

2. The Claw of Archimedes

3. Archimedes Theory of Buoyancy

4. Sand Reckoner

5. Archimedes’ screw

6. Archimedes’ death ray

7. Odometer

8. Archimedes catapult

9. The Law of Lever

10. Discovery of infinitesimals

11. Shapes and their designs

12. Formula for surface area and area of a sphere

FREDERICK W. LANCHESTER
1914-1915

England attempted to treat operations

quantitatively wherein he derived equations
relating the outcome of a battle to both the
numerical strength of combatants and their
relative power.
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LANCHESTER ENGINE
MOBILES
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THOMAS EDISON
• Studied the process of antisubmarine
warfare.

• Collected statistic in analyzing

maneuvers where surface ships could
evade and destroy submarines.

• Analyzed the merits of “zigzagging”.

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JOHANNSEN 1907
• Published his finding • Waiting line
on waiting times problems were
and the number of researched
calls.
 AGNER KRARUP ERLANG
1917

Published his “Solutions of some

problems in the Theory of Probabilities of
Significance in Automatic Telephone
Exchanges” where it contained waiting time
formulas and is now important to telephone
traffic.
GWEN D. BABCOCK
FORD W. HARRIS
In 1915 he published his model
of inventory economic lot size or
the first inventory model.

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 WALTER SHEWHART
1924

He applies statistical inference when he

introduced the concept of quality control
charts.

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 HAROLD F. DODGE AND
HARRY ROMIG
Dodge and Romig are co-workers of
Shewhart at Bell Telephone
Laboratories, who developed the
technique of sampling inspection in
connection to with quality control and
published statistical tables.

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 RONALD FISHER

He had works dealing with various modern

statistical methods and the basis of most applied
statistical theory in use today.

FISHER’S TEST

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 WASSILY LEONTIEF
Developed a linear programming
model representing the entire U.S
economy brought about by the Great
Depression of 1930s.

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HORACE C. LEVINSON
O p e r a ti o n a l R e s e a r c h
1920-1930

He applied the method of science to the

problems of business and studied the
relationship between advertising and sales.
He also studied the relationship between
customer’s income and home locations and
types of articles purchased.

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 WORLD WAR II
In 1939, there was a British operational research organization that
contributed important ways in improving early-warning radar system, in
antiaircraft gunnery, in antisubmarine warfare, in civilian defense and bombing
raids in Germany.

Blackett’s Circus was directed by Professor Blackett and consists of

physiologist, mathematicians, astrophysicist, an army officer, and surveyor. They
developed the Mixed Team Approach.

James Conant and Vannever Bush are two Americans who were
instrumental in the development of Management Science/Operations Research.

In October 1942 operations analysis group was assigned to the 8th Bomber
Command in England.
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