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	Frank Bunker Gilbreth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Frank Bunker Gilbreth (July 7, 1868-June 14, 1924), born in Fairfield, Maine, was a proponent of Taylorism and a pioneer of time-motion studies.
		Gilbreth was a prolific researcher and often used his large family (and himself) as guinea pigs in his experiments.
		Gilbreth died suddenly of heart failure in Montclair, New Jersey on June 14, 1924, leaving behind 11 surviving children and a wife, who subsequently raised the children on her own.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frank_Bunker_Gilbreth (379 words)

	Frank Bunker Gilbreth -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Frank Bunker Gilbreth (July 7, 1868-June 14, 1924), born in (Click link for more info and facts about Fairfield, Maine) Fairfield, Maine, was a proponent of (Click link for more info and facts about Taylorism) Taylorism and a pioneer of (Click link for more info and facts about time-motion studies) time-motion studies.
		Gilbreth was a prolific researcher and often used his large family (and himself) as (Stout-bodied nearly tailless domesticated cavy; often kept as a pet and widely used in research) guinea pigs in his experiments.
		Gilbreth died suddenly of (Inability of the heart to pump enough blood to sustain normal bodily functions) heart failure in (Click link for more info and facts about Montclair, New Jersey) Montclair, New Jersey on June 14, 1924, leaving behind 11 children and a wife, who subsequently raised the children on her own.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/F/Fr/Frank_Bunker_Gilbreth.htm (304 words)

	Frank and Lillian Gilbreth
		Although the results offered by Frank Gilbreth at a meeting of the American Medical Association in 1915 were ignored by the medical hieracrchy, they resurfaced in the late 1930's, as the AMA embraced the value of motion study.
		Frank Gilbreth had belonged to a union and was disposed to consider that the cooperation of the worker was necessary if any "scientific" reorganization was to succeed.
		Frank Gilbreth's early motion study technique, used during his analysis of bricklaying, relied on a visual study of the work, laid out in detailed pictures and notes.
	www.telelavoro.rassegna.it /fad/socorg03/l2/Frank%20and%20Lillian%20Gilbreth.htm (1633 words)

	WCPS -
		Frank, who started his working life as a bricklayer, had noticed that no two bricklayers seemed to use the same method - each developed his own individual technique.
		Frank and Lillian analysed work in a number of fields and pioneered the use of moving pictures as the basis of recording and analysis.
		The Gilbreth household ran by means of the Family Council established by Lillian.
	www.lmu.ac.uk /lis/imgtserv/wcpswebsite/prodscience/gilbreths.htm (332 words)

	Internet Archive: Details: Original Films Of Frank B Gilbreth (Part I) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The real frank gilnreth first worked as a brick layer..In his career, he actrd with humanity and compassion with people of all levels of society and thus was able to ontain their full cooperation..
		Gilbreth, who had 12 kids and was the author of 'Cheaper By The Dozen', was a true renaisssance man, film-maker, inventor, and most importantly, the man who championed the methods of motion study.
		Gilbreth, his wife, and kids are the ones highlighted in the popular film "Cheaper by the Dozen" (1950) where he used his kids to help in his motion studies.
	www.archive.org /movies/details-db.php?collection=prelinger&collectionid=OriginalFilm (442 words)

	National Women's Hall of Fame - Women of the Hall
		Gilbreth developed many of her ideas and co-authored numerous books and scientific studies with her husband, Frank -- and while doing so, she had 12 children in 17 years.
		Gilbreth continued to apply the principles of modern business methods to the home, and published two books about the topic, The Home-Maker and Her Job and Management in the Home, as well as many articles in popular periodicals about the topic.
		Gilbreth also had a special concern for the needs of those with physical handicaps, and used the techniques of motion analysis to design special equipment to make housework easier for these individuals.
	www.greatwomen.org /women.php?action=viewone&id=65 (498 words)

	Frank and Lillian Gilbreth: Biography
		Frank Gilbreth was much concerned until his death in 1924, with the relationship between human beings and human effort.
		Frank Gilbreth's well-known work in improving brick-laying in the construction trade is a good example of his approach.
		Frank and Lillian Gilbreth continued their motion study and analysis in other fields and pioneered in the use of motion pictures for studying work and workers.
	gilbrethnetwork.tripod.com /bio.html (1326 words)

	Books \| Precious time (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gilbreth, the oldest of nine, seems to have always had a fierce determination to live "the strenuous life," as she termed it, by which she meant doing work that was fulfilling and significant.
		When she met Frank Gilbreth, a builder and contractor from back East, their conversations initiated a professional and personal partnership that produced some of the earliest time-motion studies in industry, on the one hand, and 13 children (one was stillborn, one died of diphtheria at 5), on the other hand.
		In this sequence, Frank instructs the children’s school principal in the most efficient way to use a bar of soap, and Lancaster interviewed people who told her they thought about that every day when they were in the shower.
	www.providencephoenix.com /books/top/documents/03879178.asp (1650 words)

	BAM: O, Pioneer!, Features, February 1996 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 1938 Gilbreth was named one of twelve women "capable of holding the office of president of the United States." An intrepid globetrotter into her late eighties, she finally retired in 1968, at the age of ninety, and died three years later.
		Frank obtained a contract to implement a scientific management scheme at a local manufacturer of braiding machinery, the New England Butt Company, and the family moved into the house on Brown and Angell streets.
		Frank had chided her for making slow progress on the manuscript, to which Lillian retorted that she had only an hour a day for writing, given her business and family duties.
	brownalumnimagazine.com /storydetail.cfm?Id=541 (1810 words)

	Frank Bunker Gilbreth and Lillian Evelyn Gilbreth -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Frank Bunker Gilbreth and Lillian Evelyn Gilbreth -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Lillian Gilbreth née Lillian Evelyn Moller husband and wife who developed the method of time-and-motion study as applied to the work habits of industrial employees to increase their efficiency and hence their output.
		"Gilbreth, Frank Bunker; and Gilbreth, Lillian Evelyn." Encyclopædia Britannica.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9036817?tocId=9036817&query=frank (643 words)

	Lillian Moller Gilbreth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Lillian Gilbreth was not only an industrial engineer, she is known as the mother of industrial engineering.
		Frank Gilbreth died suddenly in 1924, leaving her with eleven children, ranging in ages two to nineteen.
		Gilbreth was the first women ever to be elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1965.
	www.engr.psu.edu /wep/EngCompSp98/CGeary/Gilbreth.html (920 words)

	Cheaper by the Dozen
		Gilbreth, both industrial engineers, ran a firm, Gilbreth, Inc. which was employed as "efficiency experts" by major industrial plants in the United States, Britain, and Germany.
		Frank, the father also experiment on which ways was faster, using two razors of one.
		A neat power that the father, Frank, had was that as soon as he look at a person he would know their nationality.
	www.studyworld.com /basementpapers/sec_papers/Cheaper_by_the_Dozen.html (505 words)

	Scientific management - the Gilbreths, Frank and Lillian plus Henry Gantt and Charles Beduax
		Frank and Lillian Gilbreth were associates of Frederick Winslow Taylor.
		It was they who coined the term 'motion study' to cover their field of research and as a way of distinguishing it from those involved in 'time study'; it is a technique that they believed should always precede method study.
		Frank and Lillian Gilbreth carried their work to extremes and their treatise 'Cheaper by the Dozen' is exemplified by their family of twelve.
	www.accel-team.com /scientific/scientific_03.html (638 words)

	Journal of Management: Assisting the handicapped: the pioneering efforts of Frank and Lillian Gilbreth - includes ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Frank and Lillian are best known to modern management for their motion study methods.
		The hardships experienced by disabled soldiers led Frank to ask "What is to be done with the millions of cripples, when their injuries have been remediedas far as possible, and when they are obliged to become again a part of the working community?" (Gilbreth & Gilbreth, 1915a: 669).
		As Frank and Lillian held, "the motion study method of attack considers the work to be done as a demand for certain motions, and the proposed worker as a supply for certain motions" (Gilbreth & Gilbreth, 1915a: 672).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m4256/is_n1_v18/ai_12289727 (1383 words)

	Review Jr. Frank B. Gilbreth - Computer Toaster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		More about the Gilbreths, but not at the level of "Cheaper by the Dozen." Many of the same incidents recounted, but more about their professional lives and plights, esp. the feud with Taylor over who had bragging rights to Scientific Management and the lucrative fees that went with that honor....
		The real Frank and Lillian Gilbreth were much more interesting than the Bakers that were portrayed in the recent movie.
		Gilbreth thought it would be though before he and his wife had twelve children.
	computertoaster.com /reviews/authorsearch_Jr.%20Frank%20B.%20Gilbreth/mode_books (213 words)

	Cheaper By the Dozen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Based on the novel by Ernestine Gilbreth Carey and her brother Frank Gilbreth, which itself was a fictionalized account of their real-life family, Cheaper By the Dozen is the story of Frank Gilbreth (Clifton Webb), and efficiency expert who, along with his wife, industrial engineer Lillian Gilbreth (Myrna Loy) raise a family of twelve children.
		Gilbreth is a loving but exacting father, who brings his work to bear in managing the day-to-day live of his bulging household, where it is cheaper (and more efficient) to have everyone's tonsils out when a couple of the Gilbreth children are found to be in need of tonsillectomies.
		Gilbreth's old-fashioned ideas of propriety and courtship are in direct opposition to Ernestine's desire to fit in with her contemporaries (i.e., she creates a scandal in the family when she bobs her hair!).
	www.classicsondvd.com /cheaperbythedozen.htm (492 words)

	ASME History and Heritage: Biographies
		Frank Bunker Gilbreth (1868-1924), U.S. mechanical engineer, together with his wife, Lillian, developed the method of time-and-motion study in the efficiency of industry workers.
		Lillian Evelyn Gilbreth, nee Moller (1878-1972), U.S. psychologist and professor, together with her husband, Frank, developed the method of time-and-motion study in the efficiency of industrial workers collaborating on numerous management articles.
		After husband Frank’s death, she assumed the presidency of the Gilbreth’s consulting firm and remained active in research, lecturing, and writing.
	www.asme.org /history/biography.html (8948 words)

	Management History
		Frank and Lillian Gilbreth emphasized method by focusing on identifying the elemental motions in work, the way these motions were combined to form methods of operation, and the basic time each motion took.
		Frank Gilbreth, known as the Father of Time and Motion Studies, filmed individual physical labor movements.
		The Gilbreths defined motion study as dividing work into the most fundamental elements possible, studying those elements separately and in relation to one another; and from these studied elements, when timed, building methods of least waste.
	ollie.dcccd.edu /mgmt1374/book_contents/1overview/management_history/mgmt_history.htm (2213 words)

	lill ian moller gilbreth
		Lillian Moller Gilbreth has come to be known as "the Mother of Modern management." She was born in 1878 in Oakland, California and received her B.A. in literature from the Unviersity of California.
		Her marriage to Frank Gilbreth who was interested in efficiency in the work place produced twelve children who were the subjects of the famous book and movie "Cheaper by the Dozen." Together with her husband, Lillian Moller Gilbreth developed ideas such as job standardization, incentive wage-plans, and motion studies in the work place.
		A woman with considerable energy and talents, Lillian Moller Gilbreth managed to have twelve children, obtain her doctorate in psychology as well as pioneer the whole new field of management.
	www.csupomona.edu /~plin/inventors/gilbreth.html (311 words)

	Tammy's Home Schooling Curriculum and Book Reviews -- Cheaper by the Dozen
		Frank travelled nationally and internationally introducing factories to efficiency studies and teaching factory big whigs how they could apply the innovative methods of helping the factory workers to work smarter, not harder, by not wasting any motions on the job.
		Frank Gilbreth practiced many of his theories on his family and got (usually hilarious, but effective) results.
		Gilbreth for the job, without mentioning that she had 12 children.
	abasiccurriculum.com /reviews/readaloud/cheaper12.html (805 words)

	Reviews: The Moves Make the Man (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		That is exactly what Anne Gilbreth had to do in Cheaper by the Dozen, by Frank Gilbreth Jr., and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey.
		The adventures were everywhere, from Nantucket in the "Shoe," to California at their grandparents' house to the Gilbreth's front porch.
		Frank Gilbreth was very good at guessing people's nationality.
	www.jburroughs.org /english/sumlists/cheaper.html (590 words)

	Hernando: Nary a wasted gesture
		The book Cheaper by the Dozen, by Frank Gilbreth and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, was adapted for the 1950 movie starring Clifton Webb and Myrna Loy and also for the stage.
		Early in the play, Frank Gilbreth is found to have a serious heart condition and begins preparing to leave his family to attend the World Management Conference in London.
		Ken Murrin, who plays Gilbreth, said the efficiency expert is simply trying to prepare his family for life in a changing world.
	www.sptimes.com /News/102000/news_pf/Hernando/Nary_a_wasted_gesture.shtml (645 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Movie : Cheaper by the Dozen : Plot
		As played by Clifton Webb, Gilbreth is a benevolent despot in his own home, managing to keep order and (sometimes) sanity despite the presence of twelve children (hence the title).
		Myrna Loy co-stars as Gilbreth's wife Lillian, who provides balance to her lively household, while Jeanne Crain is allotted the somewhat thankless role of eldest daughter Ernestine (who also narrates the story).
		Gilbreth giving an impromptu demonstration on how to take a bath in the least amount of time; and daughter Ernestine's senior prom, where her father ends up as the life of the party (appearing in this sequence as a Southern belle is Betty Lynn, who later played Thelma Lou on TV's Andy Griffith Show).
	www.vh1.com /movies/movie/54332/plot.jhtml (342 words)

	Internet Archive: Details: Original Films of Frank B. Gilbreth (Part I)
		Dr. GilbrethÕs principles of time and motion study originated at the time of the horse drawn wagon and the invention of the horse-less carriage.
		Gilbreth and nine of their eleven living children.; Motion Study footage includes: 1.
		Gilbreth suggested that motion study principles could easily be applied to surgical procedures as well as manufacturing operations.
	www.archive.org /details/Original1945 (954 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Lillian and Frank were married in 1904, and began a synergistic partnership that would produce a number of new concepts related to worker efficiency and productivity, and not incidentally, 12 children.
		An advocate of Frederick Taylor’s Scientific Management, Frank Gilbreth was concerned with the operational aspects of worker efficiency, using photography to study the various motions as workers completed tasks to achieve the greatest economy of effort.
		Lillian and Frank were among the first to study the effects stress and fatigue on workers and suggest ways to reduce fatigue through efficient motion (Miller and Lemons, 1998).
	www.dcpress.com /jmb/management.htm (1932 words)

	Frank Gilbreth and Lillian Gilbreth -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
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	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9311418 (680 words)

	Favorite Resources for Catholic Homeschoolers - Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank and Ernestine Gilbreth
		Frank B. Gilbreth originated the science of 'motion study', to improve efficiency.
		Gilbreth takes an active part in the children's education; painting glow-in-the-dark constellations on the ceiling and playing foreign language records during 'unavoidable delay' in the bathroom.
		As usual, the Gilbreth family faces cigarettes, garden fertilizer, one piece bathing suits, and meetings with the president with equal aplomb and humor.
	www.love2learn.net /history/dozen.htm (446 words)

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