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	Frank Bunker Gilbreth - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Frank Bunker Gilbreth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		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 children and a wife, who subsequently raised the children on her own.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Frank-Bunker-Gilbreth.html (310 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.
		Lillian Moller Gilbreth died in 1972 at the age of 92.
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		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.
		Lillian’s perspective as an engineer and industrial psychologist favored the worker’s viewpoint; she advocated that efficiency in motion was really a portion of a well-designed job that resulted in the enhanced wellbeing of the worker.
		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).
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	Books \| Precious time (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		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.
		Lillian had already made it clear that she felt psychology had a definite place in the study of workplace efficiency.
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	Lillian Moller Gilbreth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Lillian Moller Gilbreth has held an important part in the modernization of industrial management.
		Due to illness Lillian was forced to return home after her first year at Columbia.
		After they were married, Frank and Lillian Gilbreth began their study of scientific management principles.
	www.engr.psu.edu /wep/EngCompSp98/Khellyer/Lilian.html (278 words)

	Books - Making Time: Lillian Moller Gilbreth, A Life Beyond "Cheaper by the Dozen" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The couple’s expertise also yielded the "Gilbreth family system," a model that allowed the mother to be professionally active if she chose, while the parents worked together to raise responsible citizens.
		The work of the Gilbreth couple has been influencing the way people work both in industry and at home since the beginning of the last century; and this influence has been quite underestimated, mainly because of the lasting succes of the books "Cheaper By the Dozen" and "Belles on Their Toes".
		Lillian Moller Gilbreth is well remembered today as the patient mother of "Cheaper by the Dozen".
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	Case Study: Lillian Moller Gilbreth and the Psychology of Management
		Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878-1972), along with her husband, Frank Bunker Gilbreth, was a pioneer in the field of industrial management.
		Lillian used her knowledge of behavioral science to expand the scope of scientific management from the purely physiological, to include psychological aspects as well.
		Gilbreth applied her understanding of the significance of human factors to improving the processes of engineering design and manufacturing.
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	Frank and Lillian Gilbreth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		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)

	National Women's Hall of Fame - Women of the Hall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		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.
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	Lillian Moller Gilbreth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Lillian Gilbreth was not only an industrial engineer, she is known as the mother of industrial engineering.
		Lillian Moller Gilbreth was born into wealthy family in 1878 in Oakland, California.
		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)

	Nat' Academies Press, Memorial Tributes: National Academy of Engineering, Volume 1 (1979)
		In 1904 she married a self:made construction engineer, Frank Bunker Gilbreth, the pioneer of motion study, with no idea that not only was she to become a leader in the engineering world, but was also to become mother of six sons and six daughters.
		Gilbreth's first step alone toward the place she would win for herself in international management circles was taken five days after her husband's death, in 1924, when she sailed, as they had planned to sail together, for Prague, for history's First Interna- tional Management Congress, which they had helped organize.
		Lillian Gilbreth's life, as lived joyously, fully, and generously, was one of activity for good.
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	Frank and Lillian Gilbreth: Biography
		Frank and Lillian were married in 1904 and were parents of twelve children.
		Frank Gilbreth was much concerned until his death in 1924, with the relationship between human beings and human effort.
		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 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lillian Moller Gilbreth (May 24, 1878 - January 2, 1972) was one of the first working female engineers holding a PhD.
		She and her husband Frank Bunker Gilbreth were pioneers in the field of industrial engineering.
		Their interest in time studies, etc. may have had something to do with the fact that they had an extremely large family.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lillian_Moller_Gilbreth (224 words)

	BAM - Features - BAM 100, November / December, 2000
		Lillian Moller Gilbreth ‘15 Ph.D. Lillian Moller Gilbreth was a woman of firsts: first mother ever to receive a doctorate at Brown and the first female engineer to receive the Hoover Medal.
		According to her biographer, Jane Lancaster ’98 Ph.D., Gilbreth was the model for the mother in the 1949 novel Cheaper By the Dozen, which was written by two of her children.
		After finishing her Ph.D., Gilbreth and her husband proceeded to use scientific management to make employment possible for the handicapped, in particular for injured soldiers back from World War I. In 1924 Frank Gilbreth died, leaving Lillian alone to support their children, who were all under nineteen.
	www.brown.edu /Administration/Brown_Alumni_Magazine/01/11-00/features/industrialengineering.html (443 words)

	SWE
		The Lillian Moller Gilbreth Scholarship is SWE's oldest scholarship, established in 1958 in honor of a woman often called "The First Lady of Engineering." Dr. Gilbreth, an honorary SWE member, is familiar to the public as the wife and mother in the books and movies Cheaper by the Dozen and Belles on Their Toes.
		She and her husband, Frank Bunker Gilbreth, married in 1904 and collaborated as pioneers in the field of time and motion studies.
		Gilbreth was also the mother of twelve children.
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	Business Library, The University of Western Ontario
		The Gilbreths were two of the earliest and most prominent practitioners of scientific management, and the technological aura of the chronocyclegraph and stereochronocyclegraph pictures helped them establish their authority.
		Abstract: "Lillian Gilbreth was an important figure in the scientific management movement, but her ideas and work remain largely unexplored by scholars.
		Gilbreth was a pioneer in the field of industrial engineering, especially in motion and time studies.
	www.lib.uwo.ca /business/gilbreths.html (2152 words)

	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.
		He proposed to Lillian Moller three weeks after her return from Europe, and together they began their study of scientific management principles.
	www.sdsc.edu /ScienceWomen/gilbreth.html (551 words)

	Lilian Gilbreth: Defining Success
		Lillian Gilbreth: Defining Success Lillian Moller Gilbreth, born in 1878, along with her husband Frank Gilbreth, born in 1868, created a method to analyze work habits, which helped employers find new ways for job standardization and simplification.
		Lillian and Frank knew that their method of motion in the workplace could also be effective at home; they proved this method in the way they raised their twelve children (Graham 633).
		Lillian’s definition of success would be to carefully analyze situations and assess them, create new ways for improvement, and work hard to achieve the set goals.
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	Lillian Moller Gilbreth - People of California
		She married Frank Gilbreth in 1904; together they formed an industrial consulting firm that promoted scientific management principles, and they specialized in areas like time management, workplace efficiency, workplace fatigue and stress, and employee incentive programs.
		During her life, Gilbreth pioneered many of the theories of modern management, but the true testimony to this woman's relentless drive is the fact that she also made the time to raise twelve children!
		Lillian Moller Gilbreth died in 1972 in Phoenix, Arizona.
	www.netstate.com /states/peop/people/ca_lmg.htm (294 words)

	Lillian Moller Gilbreth -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Lillian Moller Gilbreth (May 24, 1878 - January 2, 1972) was one of the first working female (A person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems) engineers and PhD.
		She and her husband (Click link for more info and facts about Frank Bunker Gilbreth) Frank Bunker Gilbreth were pioneers in the field of (The branch of engineering that deals with the creation and management of systems that integrate people and materials and energy in productive ways) industrial engineering.
		In 1984, the (An independent federal agency that provides mail processing and delivery service for individuals and businesses in the United States) United States Postal Service issued a stamp in her honor.
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		Lillian Moller Gilbreth was Honorary Member Number One of the Society of Women Engineers, but the general public knows little of her life beyond being the mother of twelve rambunctious children in the book 'Cheaper By the Dozen'.
		Her studies were interrupted by marriage to Frank Bunker Gilbreth and the arrival of babies, roughly one every fifteen months.
		Both Gilbreths were early followers of Frederick Winslow Taylor, the 'Father' of scientific management, and Lillian collaborated with her husband on their pioneering time and motion studies.
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	As I Remember An Autobiography by Lillian Gilbreth by Lillian Gilbreth
		Gilbreth spoke of Mary as part of her husband's 'project' and not a living, breathing child, whose brief life should have been celebrated, not mourned.
		Gilbreth was a wonderful woman, who contributed greatly to humanity, and should be so honored.
		I would recommed this book to anyone interested in the life and work of Lillian Gilbreth or her field, as she should be an inspirational role model for all young women.
	www.book-summary-review.com /As-I-Remember-An-Autobiography-by-Lillian-Gilbreth-0898061865.htm (780 words)

	Lillian - Lillian Moller Gilbreth - Pioneer in Ergonomics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Lillian Nordica’s story is an operatic fairy tale of sorts, The year 1882 marked Lillian Nordica’s Paris Opera début as Marguerite in Faust,
		The Lillian United Methodist welcomes you to all the activities at the church.
		Lillian Moller was born in Oakland, Calif., in May 1878, the eldest of nine Frank Gilbreth died suddenly of a heart attack in 1924, leaving Lillian to
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	Traveling Exhibitions
		In the course of her marriage, Lillian Gilbreth bore twelve children.
		Among Gilbreth's most lasting achievements were her efforts-begun originally with her husband-to devise ways for the physically handicapped to lead more independent lives.
		Gilbreth herself did not buy this portrait after posing for it around 1930, but her daughter Ernestine asked the artist to keep it until she could afford it.
	www.npg.si.edu /cexh/nwomen/gilbreth.htm (200 words)

	I Do Know How She Does It - The real supermom message of the original Cheaper by the Dozen. By Ann Hulbert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		To be sure, in a brief foreword to Cheaper by the Dozen, the memoir published by two of the 12 Gilbreth progeny in 1948, her kids proudly identify her as a founding partner of Gilbreth Inc., a consulting firm that worked with countless American industries between 1910 and 1924.
		And it worked: Lillian Gilbreth was not tied down, physically or psychologically, by that I'm-indispensible-and-all-hell-will-break-loose-without-me mentality that is the trademark of contemporary supermomhood—and that Hollywood plays on in the current domestic-disaster pic version.
		Portrait of Lillian Gilbreth © Underwood and Underwood/CORBIS.
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	Gilbreth, Lillian Evelyn (maiden name Moller)
		Born in Oakland, California, on May 24, 1878, Lillian Evelyn Moller received both a bachelor's and a master's degree at the University of California.
		The main objective of the Gilbreths' research was to increase the efficiency and thus the output of industrial workers.
		After her husband's death in 1924, Lillian became president of their firm and remained active in research, lecturing, and writing.
	www.britannica.com /women/articles/Gilbreth_Lillian.html (242 words)

	MachineDesign.com: 75 years of Innovators: Lillian Moller Gilbreth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Lillian Gilbreth and her husband Frank sought the "one best way" to perform tasks to boost efficiency and productivity in Frank's construction company.
		Lillian held workshops at her home so she could care for the children.
		Gilbreth became a full professor at Purdue and continued on there until her retirement at age 70.
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