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  • But it wasn't until I got to Purdue that I started learning more about how the mother, Lillian Moller Gilbreth, continued the work she had shared with her husband, and went on to teach Industrial Engineering at Purdue University.

    Apollo's Daughter :: Ada Lovelace Day apollosdtr 2009

  • The patronizing nature of some of these anti-Duggar comments reminds me of the part in “Cheaper by the Dozen” (the book about the Gilbreths) when someone sends the woman from the birth control society to the Gilbreth house as a joke.

    ProWomanProLife » So who’s trying to impose what on whom now? 2009

  • Coco Joins Twitter! by Christopher Gilbreth Posted: February 24th, 2010 at 10: 07 pm

    Coco Joins Twitter! – Collider.com 2010

  • But it wasn't until I got to Purdue that I started learning more about how the mother, Lillian Moller Gilbreth, continued the work she had shared with her husband, and went on to teach Industrial Engineering at Purdue University.

    Apollo's Daughter :: March 24th, 2009 apollosdtr 2009

  • In the 1910s, the efficiency fanatics Frank and Lillian Gilbreth even filmed their children washing up to find ways to make them more productive.

    Stop the clock: time shouldn't be tied to timepieces 2012

  • The blog, "Not PC", posted an interesting article on writer Robert Heinlein's house that he designed based on the ideas of efficiency experts, Frank & Lillian Gilbreth.

    Learning From The Gilbreths 2008

  • The blog, "Not PC", posted an interesting article on writer Robert Heinlein's house that he designed based on the ideas of efficiency experts, Frank & Lillian Gilbreth.

    June 2008 2008

  • We now know that Lillian Gilbreth, an early proponent of scientific management, had serious doubts about the movement she helped proselytize.

    The Myth Of Efficiency 2009

  • Back in the 1920's, as part of the Efficiency Movement, Lillian and Frank Gilbreth strove to find ways to help make workers 'movements more efficient by examining special films of people working (using, for the first time, little lights attached to their hands which tracked their movements).

    Archive 2007-07-01 Heather McDougal 2007

  • Back in the 1920's, as part of the Efficiency Movement, Lillian and Frank Gilbreth strove to find ways to help make workers 'movements more efficient by examining special films of people working (using, for the first time, little lights attached to their hands which tracked their movements).

    Androids and Un-Aliveness Heather McDougal 2007

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