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  Frank and Lillian Gilbreth: Biography
Frank Bunker Gilbreth was born on July 7, 1868 in Fairfield, Maine.
Lillian Evelyn Moller was born on May 24, 1878 in Oakland, California.
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.
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 LILLIAN MOLLER GILBRETH
Throughout Lillian's youth, her mother was often ill and, as a result, Lillian regularly carried the responsibility for caring for her three younger brothers and five younger sisters.
Lillian's parents agreed to let her attend the University of California at Berkeley, since one of her cousins was a student there, on the condition that Lillian continue to live at home, take care of her younger sisters, and commute to school.
Lillian (then age twenty-five) and Frank (age thirty-five) were immediately smitten with one another (Contemporary Heroes and Heroines, 2000), and he was waiting for her with flowers when she returned from her trip.
www.websterinsd.edu /~woolflm/gilbreth2.html   (2104 words)

  
  Frank and Lillian Gilbreth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The work of the Gilbreths in analyzing motion and movement was part of the manufacturing revolution in the United States that began in the latter years of the nineteenth century.
The Gilbreths' can be thus be seen as sympathetic to the goals of labor reformers, part of a broad-based movement that sought not so much to overturn the established capitalistic system as to ameliorate its worst impulses.
Gilbreth traced this desire back to his first days as an apprentice bricklayer; in studying the techniques and movements of several master bricklayers, he came to the conclusion that each man performed the job in entirely different ways.
www.arts.arizona.edu /buildingbetterhumans/hm_2.html   (1664 words)

  
  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   (369 words)

  
 Lillian Moller Gilbreth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lillian Moller Gilbreth, BA MA Ph.D, (May 24, 1878 – January 2, 1972) was one of the first working female engineers holding a Ph.D.
She was born as Lillian Evelyn Moller on May 24, 1878 in Oakland, California.
Lillian married Frank Bunker Gilbreth (1868–1924) in 1904 and they were the parents of twelve children, eleven of whom lived to adulthood.Their children are Anne, Mary (died in 1912), Ernestine, Martha, Frank Jr., Bill, Lill, Fred, Dan, Jack, Bob and Jane.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lillian_Moller_Gilbreth   (464 words)

  
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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.
Lillian was one of the first 'superwomen' to combine homemaking with a strong career.
www.lmu.ac.uk /lis/imgtserv/wcpswebsite/prodscience/gilbreths.htm   (332 words)

  
 BAM: O, Pioneer!, Features, February 1996   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Lillian Gilbreth's beloved Frank died suddenly in 1924, leaving her with eleven children ages two to nineteen; undaunted, Gilbreth put all of them through college while becoming one of the best-known women in America.
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.
Apparently Lillian took her husband's advice, for each page of her thesis bears at the bottom the initials of a stenographer and the date it was typed.
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 Lillian Moller Gilbreth: Mother of Modern Management
But Lillian Moller Gilbreth was not only a mother; she was an engineer and an industrial psychologist.
Lillian excelled in high school and decided that she wanted to study literature and music.
Lillian Gilbreth continued her work alone after Frank's death in 1924.
www.sdsc.edu /ScienceWomen/gilbreth.html   (551 words)

  
 National Women's Hall of Fame - Women of the Hall
Lillian Gilbreth, industrial engineer and expert in motion studies, was a pioneer in recognizing the interrelationship between engineering and human relations.
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)

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