frank b gilbreth jr and ernestine gilbreth carey

Now let’s return to you as a reader, please, and to whatever you believe makes you tick. That which is curious or fitted to excite attention. (As in the old primer maxim: Curiosity killed the cat.) What is its definition? Webster’s answer includes the following: 1. For example, let’s decide to explore together my chosen word, curiosity. I, too, follow this practice now and again. My mother, academically a respected psychologist as well as my father’s full engineering partner, often began one of her platform appearances with a dictionary definition of whatever she planned to stress in her remarks. This was their means of clarifying, dramatizing, and humanizing their courageous mutual fields of work, namely motion-time methodology based on creating unfailing betterment and added happiness-moments for the worker.

In spite of these differences, they both liked to include anecdotes about their dozen children. PrefaceĪS A WRITER STILL in the midst of a life story of my parents, Frank and Lillian Gilbreth, I am always intrigued by the contrasts in their personalities, professional speeches, and writings. This book is about the Gilbreth family before Dad died. After that, Mother carried the load by herself and became perhaps the foremost woman industrial engineer. From 1910 to 1924, their firm of Gilbreth, Inc., was employed as efficiency expert by many of the major industrial plants in the United States, Britain, and Germany. They were among the first in the scientific management field and the very first in motion study.

MOTHER AND DAD, LILLIAN Moller Gilbreth and Frank Bunker Gilbreth, were industrial engineers.

Frank b gilbreth jr and ernestine gilbreth carey