Mary Pattison, Principles of Domestic Engineering, Trow Press, New York, 1915: “she sought to make the home more efficient by standardizing household tasks...Through the use of stopwatch and charts plus several thousand questionnaires that had been distributed to New Jersey housewives, the efficient ways to cook, clean, and sew were detailed. The titles of some of the chapters give a sense of the scope of the work. Titles of chapters include, ‘An Auto-Operative House,’ ‘The Business of Purchasing,’ ‘The Regeneration of the Kitchen,’ ‘Personal Freedom,’ ‘Organization of the Family,’ ‘The Cultural Value of Housework,’ ‘The Organization of the Consumer,’ and ‘Housework and Democracy.’” (156)

(Palen, J. John. The Suburbs. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995. Print.)